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Athens woman shines on stage at Hollywood performing arts festival
Selected Reviews
The Odd Couple
"The two women in the cast, the Pigeon sisters Gwendolyn (Halley Tiefert) and Cecily (Hayley Brown), are equally delightful, bursting into coordinated gales of girlish laughter at the start of their double date with Oscar and Felix. Their descent into sobs and tears as they converse with the downbeat Felix is the highlight of the show. Ms. Jewell has gauged the pace of the scene beautifully, and her actors deliver all the fun Mr. Simon has written into the play."
Women Beware Women
Charles M. Howell, IV
"This is the first production of a Shakespeare, or Shakespeare-adjacent, play I have seen in a 99-seat theater in L.A. where every actor made the lines clear and performed them with the stylized naturalism (if *that's* not an oxymoron) and the intensity required for these works. There's usually a bad apple or two in a cast, but not here... Hayley Brown, Dane Oliver, Christopher Salazar, and Sarah Hollis head the talented cast."
Twelfth Night
David August, WeMakeMovies.org
"Hayley Brown as Viola has warmth and accessibility that plays very well, especially in a space this size, and she lets the audience immediately connect with and root for her. Her speech as Viola after she is given a ring is exactly as it should be, and at the risk of using too much praise, it [brings] the word 'sublime' to mind."