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on Hell, The Musical  - Winner Best of San Francisco Fringe Festival

Audience Reviews:

"Favorite song sung by Ilene (Danielle Thys) about the traps in the room."

"Strong performances match the tunes, particularly Danielle Thys as Ilene."

"This show kicked ass! The band was tight, the writing was hilarious and the actors were all spot on. Great comedic timing, great voices, great songs. Couldn't ask for a better night's entertainment."

"The Exit on Taylor can barely contain the energy created by this talented cast backed up by a fez clad live band. An updated adaptation of No Exit is difficult enough, but a musical adaptation is almost impossible, yet they pull it off with panache. A great show..."

"Danielle Thys and KS Haddock were stand-outs in this thoughtfully scripted musical."

"Pulling off a rock opera under the set up and breakdown time limitations of the Fringe Festival is impressive alone, but they more than pulled it off in this show. The Acting was tight and the songs were funny, tragic and beautiful. A must see for this fringe season."

Robert Avila - San Francisco Bay Guardian
5 Stars
"Darkness descends again in a philosophical and even more comical key with 2006 Best of Fringe winner K.S. Haddock's "Hell, the Musical", which astutely realizes that while Jean Paul Sartre cooked up the perfect image of hell in other people, he completely left out the power chords. The charismatic cast of this revamped No Exit can sing and act, and the live musical accompaniment by the Crooked Family provides the Pat Benatar-esque punch you'd expect to be leveled by and against the damned."

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on The Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland 2007

Fest Magazine - The Skinny, 4 stars
Liz Rawlings
"It is not the set that makes this play so engaging but the superb performances of the two actors Danielle Thys and Nick Sholley who play their parts with conviction...This is a bleak yet engaging play which discusses murder, incest, abortion and addiction. It is not comfortable viewing and the audience are made to question their own mortality, yet it is this painful confrontation which makes the play so compelling... The Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars is a poetically written, well-acted production, which offers Fringe-goers quality and thought-provoking theatre."

The Scotsman
"ambitious and powerfully performed"
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on The Clean House

The Press Democrat
Dan Taylor
“Consistently both credible and comic...Thys as the forsaken wife...lend(s) authenticity to the most dramatic moments of the second act.”

North Bay Bohemian
David Templeton
“ Pitch-perfect...a first-rate cast... impeccable, zigging easily from one-liners and comic collisions to some very difficult emotional moments, literally causing the audience to laugh and cry at the same time....As the two sisters, Lane and Virginia, Thys and Jorgensen are remarkable, imbuing their characters' emotional arcs with crystal-clear moments of realization and self-awareness.”
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on "Gibraltar"

SF Chronicle
Robert Hurwitt
"arresting..."

SF Bay Times
Linda Ayers-Fredrick
"a subtly varied yet complex portrayal..." 
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on "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change"

San Francisco Chronicle
Jane Ganahl
"The play nails romance's many-splendored foibles."

SF Weekly
Michael Scott Moore
"The song (Always a Bridesmaid) is easily the show's highlight, and Thys delivers it with a clever, shameless flair"
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on "Rocket Man"

San Francisco Chronicle
Robert Hurwitt
Louise is portrayed with breezy directness and aching sadness by Danielle Thys.
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on "Fugitive Kind"
world premier of a 'lost' Tennessee Williams play

SF Weekly
Michael Scott Moore
Even more interesting than the marks of his teachers, though, are the touches of the future Tennessee, like his portrait of a fancy Southern streetwalker named Bertha, dressed in shimmering green and graced with the sort of opening line that only Williams could give a lady. "I thought I smelled somethin' rotten around here, but I thought it was the wind from the packin' house...Bertha goes on to sprinkle her scene with innuendo . Then she leaves, trailing sin and sensation. Danielle Thys plays her beautifully."


Excerpt from: "Williams Through a Great Window"
www.tennesseewilliamsstudies.org
Jacqueline O'Connor
"... As played by Danielle Thys, Bertha's bird-like white frame jitters its way across the stage as she evokes the desperateness and the deprivation of the times."

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on "Mary in the Hydrangea Bush"

SF Weekly
Michael Scott Moore
"…The show revolves around an interesting woman, played beautifully by Danielle Thys. In Thys' hands Mary is lofty, tart, uninhibited, and world-weary; she deals with her friends and lovers with distracted affection and a casual dirty mouth. Besecker imagines a morning conversation for every possible pair of lovers, but you wish Mary could be in every scene." -
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on "The Way Light Strikes Filled Mason Jars"  Winner Sold Out & Best Of Awards SF Fringe Festival

SF Fringe Festival audience reviews:
"Danielle Thys displays considerable talent in the supple manner with which she switches from one famously f***ed up literata to the next. Her deftness with accent is punctuated with understated movement..."

"Danielle Thys' performance was stellar as she seamlessly metamorphosed into the different characters--she really is superb. And how she still managed to deftly dance between extreme sadness while still gracefully interjecting moments of humour--was a wonder to behold."

"…Danielle Thys is one of the truly top notch actors in this town ..."

"Danielle Thys' dazzling portrayal of four complex, deeply troubled women is a tour de force…"

"…Flowing with feline facility from the main character, playwright Maggie, into a triptych of literary heavyweights --Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion-- Thys' ease and grace fuses with a presence that is always captivating without relying on forced emotional pyrotechnics to command attention. Her performance is modulated both to the space of the theatre and to the interior landscape of these four deeply troubled women…."

"…For this viewer, the interesting perspective of the playwright, the apt direction of Ian Walker and the fine acting of Christopher Slater are all completely overshadowed by the pure brilliance of Danielle Thys. Thys has one of the most phenomenal stage presences I've ever encountered on any stage. I would pay to hear her perform the San Francisco White Pages, knowing her performance would make it seem like The Greatest Story Ever Told. I cannot imagine any actress better in the sophisticated woman role than Danielle Thys. She is a goddess of exquisite delivery and timing. Make her your reason for seeing The Way Light Strikes and you won't be disappointed."

"On this scale (of 1 to 5 stars) my enjoyment of this piece is more 7ish stars. Honestly. Danielle Thys gives possibly the best performance I've seen in my three Fringes…."
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on "Counting the Ways"
Winner Sold Out Award SF Fringe Festival

SF Fringe Festival audience reviews:
"…Danielle Thys' comic delivery reveals unusual appeal…"

"…Danielle Thys captures the veneer of SHE with such a nuanced performance that the frailties and regrets of her character's lost opportunities glimmer through….
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on "Soul's Rust"

SF Bay Guardian
Robert Avilla
"The performances, especially Thys' darkly shaded shade, elevate an interesting premise. -
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on "Sandy Dennis at the Maisonettes"

Chad Jones - currently Senior Critic for The Oakland Tribune
Bay Area Reporter
 "Danielle Thys - relishes her bits as an incompetent New York journalist, as Cougar, Sandy Dennis' young lesbian traveling companion, and as Tennessee Williams himself in a wonderful seduction scene with a shirtless, aspiring young actor." - The whole thing devolve(s) into a spicy Freudian gumbo: it's messy and a little too hot, but it's good."