In Bexley, OH(!) at the New York Theatre Workshop

Absorbing, wildly peculiar elements ... a keen eye for the character revealing detail.

The hero of these two stories is Ms. Holmes herself, who, in her version of things, was born a subversive and managed to grow up in this stifling household unmarked [by] its values. You're on her side.

---The New York Times

You're in the hands of a master storyteller.

In tone and quality, they're reminiscent of the work of Garrison Keillor ("Prairie Home Companion") -- but not as self-consciously folksy.

Her understated performance is the play's secret weapon.

She is clearly a performer to watch.

---Associated Press

A clever narrator makes her childhood memories a grotesquely funny portrait of a society in decay in "Bexley, OH," now at the New York Theatre Workshop.

Prudence Wright Holmes delivers with wry wit and compassionate cruelty this picture of the prim, Protestant Ohio suburb in the '50s and '60s.

---The NY Post

The droll twist of her thin smile and the wicked twinkle in her eye promise comedy tonight. It's clear she has a gift for understated character comedy.

---Variety

There is a lot to like in Prudence Wright Holmes' one-woman show, Bexley, OH! The writing is crisp and enjoyable. It's entertaining. Holmes' performance is as smooth and affectless as the plains of the state from which she hails. She is a likable and trustworthy narrator.

---NYTheatre.com

Holmes does not captivate her listeners with grand theatrics, but patiently engages them with a carefully woven narrative, gently told and brimming with telling details.

By the end of the night, the "OH" in the title no longer seems an expression of surprise, but of belated comprehension.

---Broadway.com

Holmes has a keen eye for telling detail |and has created an engaging ...successful...curious and affecting look at the ties that don't necessarily have to bind.

---Backstage

Holmes is an affable storyteller with a low-key delivery.

In Bexley's two monologues, Holmes paints her father and mother as die-hard supporters of the status quo. Repugnant as these people are, Holmes manages, almost grudgingly, to add complexity to their portraits.

Holmes subtly but effectively illustrates a strain of doubt and self-loathing in her father.

---Time Out

In WMKS, Where Music Kills Sorrow at The Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, PA

There's the tough yet nurturing Alma (Prudence Wright Holmes) who is nothing short of captivating. She makes the audience roar with delight at her her high-pitched singing. She also brings them to tears when she risks her life to do the right thing.

---Lancaster Sunday News

Prudence Wright Holmes gives her character a hillbilly aura that's both deep and humorous.

---Lancaster New Era

In Dirty Work at the Crossroads at The Showboat Theatre, Greenwich, CT.

Prudence Wright Holmes brings down the house with her song.

---The Greenwich News

In The Crucible at WPI Theatre, Greenwich, CT.

As Elizabeth Proctor, Ms. Holmes' performance is incandescent.

---The Greenwich News

In The Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show at The First Chicago Center, Chicago, Ill.

Prudence Wright Holmes is a musical comedy natural. She possesses a unique stage personality. She's a comic soprano who also makes wonderful noises, the kind a flexible, funny singer can only attempt. She also moves like a marionette on gummy strings, no small achievement.

---The Chicago Reader

In Polly at The Chelsea Theatre at BAM, Brooklyn, NY

There is a winning performance from Prudence Wright Holmes as the idiotic maid.

---New York Daily News

In Livingston and Sechele on Broadway

Prudence Wright Holmes is outstanding.

---Backstage

In Eccentricities of a Nightingale at The Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck ,NY

There's a fine bit by Prudence Wright Holmes as one of the pathetic outcasts of the literary circle.

---The New York Times

In The Drunkard at The Barn Dinner Theatre, Columbus, Ohio

Prudence Wright Holmes does a great job in three roles. Her wonderful transition from a meek mother to a bawdy barmaid is the mark of a good actress. She is excruciatingly funny as the ribald high-roller who bats her eyelashes , swivels her hips and gives the audience the come-on.

---The Columbus Dispatch

In Personal Appearance at The Carousel Dinner Theatere, Ravenna. Ohio

The biggest explosions of applause go to Prudence Wright Holmes as the stage-struck neighbor.

---The Akron Times

In Happy End on Broadway at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway

Prudence Wright Holmes is exceptionally fine.

---The New York Daily News

The Salvation Army was notably upheld by Prudence Wright Holmes

---The New York Times