Reviews

"(Kane's) Martha is as spirited and terrifyingly complicated as she is compelling. And her portrayal of a broken Martha at the play’s end, and the journey it took to get there, is absolutely spellbinding."

"Nearly 20 years ago, this newspaper claimed that the Gamm was a “buzz-generating theater” that offered epic shows in an intimate space. It still is. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is a perfect coalescence of play, production, and performance."

Boston Globe

"Brilliant. I can’t think of a better way to describe “Faith Healer,” currently on stage at the Gamm Theatre in Warwick. Simple brilliance all around.

Kane’s monologue is edgy and filled with nuanced movements. The lighting and stubbing out of cigarettes, the pouring and drinking of whiskey. She suggests but doesn’t describe a traumatic experience. 

This is a remarkable bit of theater. Students of acting should see “Faith Healer” as a master class in monologues. 

Brilliance all around."

What's Up Newp

 "Nora’s final showdown with Torvald still packs a prophetic punch, especially as performed by Jeanine Kane, whose portrayal of Nora can only fortify the Gamm’s growing reputation as a showcase for first-rate acting. Kane builds an evolving portrait of a woman who is never as simple as she seems, and by the end is not simple at all. 

As her well-ordered world starts coming apart at the seams, Nora gets a glimpse of her husband’s true nature, and then figures out an even larger truth about herself. Kane powerfully conveys the awakening of a woman who first struggles within the web of deception she has spun, then realizes she is caught in a much wider social web that she must try to escape."

Boston Globe

 "Something that is no surprise is the brilliant performance of Jeanine Kane as Bananas Shaughnessy. This kind of play seems to be right in Kane's wheelhouse but this play isn't typical and neither is her role. It's also a role which could become very shallow or hollow, if played as just "the crazy lady" and nothing more. Kane doesn't go that route, instead creating an amazingly nuanced, completely real and very profound performance."

Broadway World

 "The scene stealer just might be Jeanine Kane as Paulina, Hermione’s loyal de- fender who stares down adversaries, including the king, with a don’t-cross-me look. Kane also is tops at breaking the log- jam of Shakespeare’s wordy dialogue and making it sound conversational." 

Sun Chronicle

 "Yet no one is as solid in this production as Jeanine Kane as the knowing Paulina, the glue which holds this world together and mystifies its occupants beyond death in the finale. Kane, who I last reviewed as the mentally unstable wife in “The House of Blue Leaves,” is regal here. She, too, has been an unsung treasure at the Gamm for two decades..."

RI Central

 Good People:

"Jeanine Kane never fails to deliver for The Gamm, even if some roles aren’t quite a perfect fit. Here, though, role and actor are a perfect marriage and Kane gives an award-worthy performance, imbuing this edgy denizen of Southie with pathos and fragile beauty."

Beauty Queen of Leenane:

"Jeanine Kane was impeccable as Maureen. Kane found the most simple and forthright means of furthering the story in a role that is fraught with psychological pitfalls and all too easily could leave an actor chewing scenery. Kane avoided all of the role’s traps and left one with a sense of pity for a woman who commits extreme acts of cruelty throughout the play."

Motif

"Jeanine Kane roams the castle at night trying to rub the dead king’s blood from her hands.

Estrella and Kane have played opposite one another before, but they have never looked better together than here. She is ruthless, and he can’t see through her, because it’s all about feeding his ambition.

Their dance together is so intense, so bloody and reckless, that we just can’t allow ourselves to look away."

Providence Journal