“Nellie is played radiantly by Angela Ingersoll… The chemistry between Ingersoll and Adams was effective and helped make the entire show believable. It was Ingersoll’s portrayal of Nellie, however, that stole the show. Her charm onstage was infectious and you couldn’t help but watch every little thing she did. From the silly scene of her washing her hair, to the tender moments toward the end of the show, Ingersoll is a brilliant actress.”
-Broadway World
“…And hot up-and-comer Angela Ingersoll is a continuing revelation; a dynamo of a little sprite with a great big voice and terrific acting chops.”
-Steadstyle Chicago
“Angela Ingersoll in a spirited, engaging, star-making performance… as Nellie Forbush delivers a fresh, youthful innocence and vitality to her role. She demonstrates her fine vocal range and she sells her songs wonderfully. Her ‘Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair’ and ‘A Wonderful Guy’ were heartwarming.”
-Chicago Critic
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“If anyone stole the show it’s Angela Ingersoll’s quiet but perpetually enraged Lady Anne. I’ve never witnessed such intensity on stage.”
-The Highly Suggestible Type
“Angela Ingersoll as Lady Anne Neville brings a delicate intensity to a notoriously difficult role. One can feel her chaotic emotions as she is wooed literally over the dead body of her father-in-law… Ms. Ingersoll makes Anne’s impossible choices seem understandable – not an easy task.”
-Chicago Theatre Blog
“Angela Ingersoll (as commanding in the classics as she is in musicals) is radiant as Lady Anne, the young widow so hideously seduced by Richard…”
-Chicago Sun Times
“In the small yet powerful role of Lady Anne Angela Ingersoll is terrific. Ingersoll’s passionate anger and catatonic self-loathing make me wish Shakespeare had expanded the role much further.”
-PlayShakespeare.com
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“Anais Nin is played with vixenish vigor by Angela Ingersoll in the standout performance amongst a sturdy cast…”
-New City Stage
“Short and precise, a revue serves as an intimate platform for powerhouse performances. Ample evidence of this is at Apple Tree Theatre, where a sharp, engaging new work, The Mistress Cycle, is setting the stage ablaze… All of the performances are top-notch, but it’s McMonagle and Ingersoll who bring extra punch to their characters… Ingersoll is simply stunning as Nin, whose life is a maze of men and hidden longing… Ingersoll is sensational here, particularly in her rendering of ‘Papa’.”
-Chicago Sun Times
“This remarkable 90-minute revue allows five superb singers/actors to portray seminal and scandalous courtesans… Angela Ingersoll radiates light and heat as Anais Nin…”
-Chicago Free Press
“A sensuous delight in every connotation of the word… This is a tour de force for the cast. Special attention must be called to Ingersoll, McMonagle and Richardson. Ingersoll steps into the shoes of unapologetic vixen Anais Nin with liberated gusto, drawing the largest number of laughs from the enthusiastic crowd… The busty Anais Nin exudes sex in her voluptuous red gown…”
-Edge Chicago
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“The slapstick alone is worth the price of the ticket — I’ve never seen a crazier food fight — and the performances are uniformly outstanding… This is where I’d normally cram in a few more names before running out of space. The trouble is that it would be unfair to single out anyone else for special mention, since everybody in the show is worthy of lavish and heartfelt praise. So I’ll leave it at this: I’ve never seen a funnier Shakespeare production than Ms. Gaines’s Comedy Of Errors, or a better Shakespeare company than Chicago Shakespeare. Beat that, Broadway!”
-The Wall Street Journal
“The performances are terrifically detailed, all the way from Lehman’s two-faced work as both the droll director and one of the confused slaves, to Kane and Krill’s dueling fops, to background easter eggs like the off-camera flirtation of Angela Ingersoll and Dan Sanders-Joyce.”
-Time Out Chicago
“This big, gorgeous production has an aureate glow, like a perfect machine of a Broadway musical with iambic pentameter instead of songs. The cast is packed with star turns… A piece of expert entertainment, Comedy warms its audience in the feeling of dozens of top professionals teaming up across centuries, for no other purpose than to delight.”
-Centerstage Chicago
“…a sexy young ingénue named Angela Ingersoll in her flattering red dress and strappy red high heels threatens to disrupt the entire production with just her lissome presence.”
-Shaltz Shakespeare Reviews
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“Pleasures include Angela Ingersoll’s delightfully unpolished Martha, who knocks the best number, ‘Hold On’ right out onto Belmont Avenue.”
-Chicago Tribune
“…Martha, who is a chambermaid (Angela Ingersoll, whose voice and comedic talent also best the performance of Alison Fraser, the original Martha on Broadway.)”
-Chicago Sun-Times
“Angela Ingersoll and Luke Mills are the funny and charming (respectively) chambermaid and her brother. Their vocal performances are some of the best moments of the show.”
-Talkin’ Broadway
“Martha, the chambermaid, and her brother Dickon, played by Angela Ingersoll and Luke Mills, respectively, are both outstanding.”
-Broadway World
Posted on February 3, 2010
“As the beautiful Belle, Angela Ingersoll never once allows herself to become another simple minded ingenue. She is by turns sassy, strong, brave, bookish, and simply lovely to look upon. This is Ingersoll’s swan song as a member of Playhouse’s resident company, and the actress, who has given Memphis memorable takes on such famous characters as Aldonza and Lady Macbeth, has taken a role she could have done in her sleep and imbued it with intellect and even a hint of righteous anger.”
-Memphis Flyer
Posted on January 3, 2010
“Angela Ingersoll is downright hilarious… Her comic timing is flawless and her singing voice is glorious. The city of Memphis is indeed fortunate to have her gracing our stages. This girl is going places fast.”
-Family and Friends Magazine
“Angela Ingersoll, the funniest musical theatre actor in Playhouse’s stable, is captivating in her role of the hyper-sexed daughter Shelley Parker.”
-Commercial Appeal
“Angela Ingersoll continues to prove why she may be the most versatile, chameleon-like actress in town.”
-Memphis Flyer
Posted on December 3, 2009
“Angela Ingersoll’s portrayal -crass, clever, and sexually manipulative – explodes off the stage in a shower of wicked pheromones.”
-Memphis Flyer
“Engle and Ingersoll are not only the cast’s best articulated speakers of Shakespeare’s verse, they are wonderfully compelling villains, eccentric enough to draw a few much-needed laughs from the blood soaked script.”
-Commercial Appeal
“Ingersoll’s Lady Macbeth steals the show. Her portrayal of Lady Macbeth’s greedy ambitions and spirals will give you chills.”
-Lamplighter Magazine
Posted on November 3, 2009
“Good: Angela Ingersoll as the prostitute Lucy continues her series of smashing portrayals. The riveting performer gets to belt out several tunes… Great voice, powerful presence. She dies quite beautifully, too.”
-Commercial Appeal
Posted on October 3, 2009
“You know you’re in good hands right off the bat, when Angela Ingersoll, as Dorothy, tackles ‘Over the Rainbow’ as if she’s been waiting years to sing it in front of an audience… Ingersoll leads a cast so engaging and enthusiastic that, by the end, you may not want Dorothy to click those heels together and go back to Kansas.”
-Family and Friends Magazine
“Angela Ingersoll does a smashing job as Dorothy Gale, calling to mind Judy Garland without ever doing an exact imitation. Most impressively, she never lets Toto upstage her, a feat anyone who has ever worked with an animal should certainly envy.”
-Memphis Flyer
Posted on September 3, 2009
“The show’s best find, however, is Angela Ingersoll as the precocious Thomasina. Her joy at learning, her impatience with her elders, and her indefatigable curiosity are impeccably integrated into an accomplished and satisfying portrait.”
-Citybeat
“Ms. Ingersoll, a festival Young Company member, is utterly endearing and believable as a 13-year-old wunderkind.”
-Cincinnati Enquirer
