Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Slideshow, Center Rep
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Escaped Alone
"The show, which follows four older women in a series of backyard chats as apocalypse looms prominently in the background, features a gobsmacking cast, the likes of whom our limited theatrical canon would rarely permit on the same stage: Anne Darragh, Julia McNeal, Elizabeth Benedict and Anne Hallinan."
Lily Janiak San Francisco Chronicle
"Four British women (Churchill specified they be at least 70) gather for tea to chat and reminisce, in Churchill’s fragmented, elliptical, hyper-realistic style. Maybe due to audio technology, the actors never actually interrupt or cut each off as I believe Churchill intends, but that’s the only flaw in this stellar production."
Jean Schiffman San Francisco Examiner
"The show, which follows four older women in a series of backyard chats as apocalypse looms prominently in the background, features a gobsmacking cast, the likes of whom our limited theatrical canon would rarely permit on the same stage: Anne Darragh, Julia McNeal, Elizabeth Benedict and Anne Hallinan."
Lily Janiak San Francisco Chronicle
"Four British women (Churchill specified they be at least 70) gather for tea to chat and reminisce, in Churchill’s fragmented, elliptical, hyper-realistic style. Maybe due to audio technology, the actors never actually interrupt or cut each off as I believe Churchill intends, but that’s the only flaw in this stellar production."
Jean Schiffman San Francisco Examiner
Torch Song Trilogy
"Anne Hallinan is perfect as Arnold's mother. The confrontation between mother and son is a tour de force of excellent acting." Richard Connema Talkin’ Broadway
"...when Arnold's mother, Ma (Anne Hallinan), shows up and at first mistakes David for her son's underage lover, then copes with the notion of her gay son giving her the grandchild she has always dreamed of….(is) wonderful.”
Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times
"Anne Hallinan is perfect as Arnold's mother. The confrontation between mother and son is a tour de force of excellent acting." Richard Connema Talkin’ Broadway
"...when Arnold's mother, Ma (Anne Hallinan), shows up and at first mistakes David for her son's underage lover, then copes with the notion of her gay son giving her the grandchild she has always dreamed of….(is) wonderful.”
Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times
Fiancee
"The Ghost Sonata"
In 2012, Cutting Ball Theater staged all five of August Strindberg's Chamber Plays,
in repertory. Rob Melrose directed a new translation of Storm, Burned House,
The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, and The Black Glove. I was privileged to be part
of this remarkable production, which included 4 days in which all 5 plays were
performed in a day.
Videos of all five plays are available online at: http://strindberg.cuttingball.com
in repertory. Rob Melrose directed a new translation of Storm, Burned House,
The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, and The Black Glove. I was privileged to be part
of this remarkable production, which included 4 days in which all 5 plays were
performed in a day.
Videos of all five plays are available online at: http://strindberg.cuttingball.com
"...strong work by Gwyneth Richards, David Sinaiko, Robert Parsons, and Anne Hallinan."
Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
"…and Anne Hallinan give impressive performances."
Richard Connema, Talkin’ Broadway
Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
"…and Anne Hallinan give impressive performances."
Richard Connema, Talkin’ Broadway
Kristin in "The Black Glove"
" …doubling as Hummel’s now elderly and silent ex-fiancee, Anne Hallinan makes a ghoulish, bullying cook.
Sam Hurwitt, Marin Independent Journal
"James Carpenter's Hummel was perfect. The pathos of his lost love was exquisitely conveyed, as was the life-denying message of Anne Hallinan's Cook. I am a regular theatre-goer, but haven't been so moved by a play in a long time." J. Michael Edwards
Sam Hurwitt, Marin Independent Journal
"James Carpenter's Hummel was perfect. The pathos of his lost love was exquisitely conveyed, as was the life-denying message of Anne Hallinan's Cook. I am a regular theatre-goer, but haven't been so moved by a play in a long time." J. Michael Edwards
Rose in "The Arab-Israeli Cookbook"
The Arab-Israeli Cookbook
"Anne Hallinan's sharply etched Rena, an urbane former New Yorker, segues from general observations to her widowhood and defiance of the intifada. Hallinan is even more touching as Rose, an elderly Christian Arab chafing under her increasing isolation with her husband (an affecting Stephen Steiner) and recalling the outrages of the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem."
Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
"Anne Hallinan as Rena, a New York widow who decides to move to Israel, has an interesting take on trying the live the good life in a traumatized region.
Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
"Anne Hallinan's sharply etched Rena, an urbane former New Yorker, segues from general observations to her widowhood and defiance of the intifada. Hallinan is even more touching as Rose, an elderly Christian Arab chafing under her increasing isolation with her husband (an affecting Stephen Steiner) and recalling the outrages of the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem."
Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
"Anne Hallinan as Rena, a New York widow who decides to move to Israel, has an interesting take on trying the live the good life in a traumatized region.
Chad Jones, Oakland Tribune
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Disclosure
"Anne Hallinan and Valerie Weak played beautifully onstage as mother and daughter (possibly because they have trained together for many years) and their relationship was one of the most nuanced and realistic I have ever seen represented dramatically. " Christine Young, Works by Women, San Francisco |
 With Tamar Cohn in "Years in the Hundreds" at Central Works
Years in the Hundreds
"...the three-actor ensemble does a superb job of playing off of each other’s strengths. As Inez, Anne Hallinan elicits sympathy ... George Heymont, Huffington Post |
As Inez in "Years in the Hundreds"
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Mrs. Beyer in "Voyage"
Voyage
"Anne Hallinan, Britney Frazier and Alex Shafer capably represent the world of serfs and dispossed.
Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle
Mrs. Shin in "The Good Person of Szechwan"
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The Good Person of Szechuan
"...Lauren Hendler, Anne Hallinan, and Klahr Thorsen contribute well-crafted work." Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle |
Mrs. Barker in "The American Dream"
The American Dream
"Edward Albee's dark comedy, The American Dream, is set in a living room, and that's where it was staged Saturday night...in the course of the 65-minute play, the grandfather clock in the foyer rang twice, and the cuckoo in the clock at stage left poked its head out as if on cue. (In the second show, it came out right as actress Anne Hallinan was undressing."
Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle
"Boxcar Theatre Brings Albee to Home Front"
"Edward Albee's dark comedy, The American Dream, is set in a living room, and that's where it was staged Saturday night...in the course of the 65-minute play, the grandfather clock in the foyer rang twice, and the cuckoo in the clock at stage left poked its head out as if on cue. (In the second show, it came out right as actress Anne Hallinan was undressing."
Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle
"Boxcar Theatre Brings Albee to Home Front"
Madame Neilson in "Les Blancs"
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Boo in "The Last Night of Ballyhoo"
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