“Playhouse favorite Monette Magrath (as alpha-lawyer daughter Jane) has that indefinable likeability factor that immediately wins an audience to her side, even when playing as tightly-wound a character as she does here. Magrath keeps Jane’s pain locked within, yet we sense quite rightly that out of sight does not mean out of mind. When she finally lets it out, the effect is all the more powerful coming from someone as outwardly ‘in control’ as Jane has seemed to be.”
“Monette Magrath captures Leavitt’s passion for astronomy much as Jody Foster did for Eleanor Arroway in ‘Contact,’ without turning the play into something only a scientist could love. In Magrath’s performance, the audience feels her joy. And the audience, much of it made up of attendees of the 2011 Pacific Playwright’s Festival, gave it a standing ovation.”
“Ms. Magrath was the most pleasant to watch when she exhibited the character’s wonder at the sky, and was downright funny when thrown for a loop by love.”
“Monette Magrath gives a very watchable performance. Her interactions with her professional colleagues provide much of the driving force behind the often intellectual action in the show.”
“Magrath is at her best in scenes with Cottrell; the sister relationship, filled with rivalry and bitterness as well as love, is believable and fascinating.”
“Magrath has simply never been better than she is as Abbie, revealing such sultry seductivness, it’s no wonder father and son find themselves hooked by her Hitchcock blonde allure.”