Jan Maxwell

Jan Maxwell has been nominated for two Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performances in LEND ME A TENOR and THE ROYAL FAMILY.

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Broadway: The Royal Family, Coram Boy (Tony, Drama Desk nominatons), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Drama Desk Award, Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Sixteen Wounded (Drama Desk nomination), A Doll’s House (OCC Nom), The Sound of Music (OCC Nom), The Dinner Party (OCC Award), Brian Friel’s Dancing At Lughnasa, and City of Angels. Off-Broadway: Howard Barker’s Scenes From An Execution (Drama Desk nom.) and Camille (Potomac Theatre Project/NYC), Anton Dudley’s Substitution, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Drama Desk, OCC nom.), Tina Howe’s translation of Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano (Atlantic Theatre), Jules Feiffer’s A Bad Friend (Lincoln Center), Israel Horovitz’s My Old Lady (Lortel Award, Drama Desk nom), Opening Doors (Carnegie Hall), Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden (MTC), The Seagull (Kennedy Center). TV: PBS’ “AIDS: Changing the Rules,” “Law & Order,” “Gossip Girl.” Special thanks: Will Maxwell-Lunney.



Here is Jan at rehearsal with her co-stars Jennifer Laura Thompson and Jay Klaitz.

The Critics on LEND ME A TENOR


David Cote, TIME OUT NEW YORK
“Let me spell it out: Lend Me a Tenor is the most howlingly funny and ingeniously staged laugh machine to hit Broadway in years. There’s no point in telling you how superbly fun this all is: Go now, and don’t wait for the fat lady to sing.”

Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Maxwell is, as usual, utter perfection in her role.”

Linda Winer, NEWSDAY
“Maxwell is DELICIOUSLY SERPENTINE as the tenor’s beleaguered, but hardly long-suffering wife.”

Joe Dziemianowicz, DAILY NEWS
“Jan Maxwell is LIVING LAUGHING GAS as his hissing, howling hellcat of a wife, Maria.”

Robert Feldberg, THE RECORD
“The cast generates wave after wave of laughter. Jan Maxwell has turned jealousy into performance art.”

Michael Kuchwara, ASSOCIATED PRESS
“Jan Maxwell SCORES MAJOR LAUGHS as Tito’s jealous wife”

John Simon, BLOOMBERG NEWS
“Maxwell ONE OF OUR FINEST COMMEDIENNES, rages operatically as Maria.”

Joan Hamburg, WOR RADIO
“Jan Maxwell did a TERRIFIC job.”

Scott Brown, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
“Jan Maxwell DRAWS A SPOTLIGHT around herself every time she enters.”

Jan Maxwell in LEND ME A TENOR on Broadway. Photo (c) Joan Marcus 2010


The critics on THE ROYAL FAMILY

to come