Reviews

These Paper Bullets

By Rolin Jones

Music by Billie Joe Armstrong

Directed by Jackson Gay

Produced by Atlantic Theater Co., Geffen Playhouse, Yale Rep & New Neighborhood

Pictured with Ceci Fernandez, Ariana Venturi, Jeanine Seralles and Brad Heberlee

Higgy’s friend Ulcie, a floozy exuberantly played by Keira Naughton, is hilarious.

The New York Times reviews These Paper Bullets at the Yale Rep

Higgy’s posse, which includes the hilariously salacious Ulcie (Keira Naughton), would fit right in with the ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ crowd.

The LA Times reviews These Paper Bullets at the Geffen Playhouse, September 17, 2015

The Dining Room

By A.R. Gurney

Directed by Mark Lamos

Westport Playhouse

Keira Naughton is sweetly believable as a child at a birthday party, where the grown-ups are discussing very serious things in the background. But she is most memorable, playing way beyond her age, as an older woman with dementia, insisting that it is time to go home after Thanksgiving dinner and unable to understand that she is already there.

Anita Gates, The New York Times 

Company

By Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration

Sean Mathias, Director

Jonathan Tunick, Musical Director

Emily Skinner and Keira Naughton appear in scenes that usually come off as winking blackout sketches, involving karate and pot smoking. Yet… they manage to turn comic conceits into seemingly spontaneous studies in relationships. They truly do feel alive in ways Bobby can only envy.

Ben Brantley, New York Times

Hunting and Gathering

by Brooke Berman

Directed by Leigh Silverman

Primary Stages

As played by the effortlessly endearing Naughton, Ruth has the chipper attitude of the Manhattan single female who revels in her idiosyncratic lifestyle, but secretly longs for a more meaningful connection.

Variety

Proof

By David Auburn

Directed by Wendy C. Goldberg

Arena Stage

The evening’s charismatic glue, though, is supplied by the terrific Keira Naughton, as the central character, Catherine, a troubled young college dropout who may or may not be the country’s next great math whiz.… Naughton is so dynamic that she’s a bulwark against doubt. That Catherine professes not to care about whatever gifts she might possess only adds to her seductiveness. The more profanely she rejects being ministered to, the more ardently we want to stand by her. She’s also the emotional hub from which the several spokes of “Proof” radiate. Naughton… takes nary a false step all evening. You feel as if you’re walking right behind her, on that fine line between self-sufficiency and despair. While Catherine’s energy is negative, Naughton is never a downer. You sense that beneath the unkempt hair, the shapeless denim skirts, the nasty cracks, she is a woman, a pretty one, who hasn’t given up hoping for her own redemption.

Peter Marks, The Washington Post

Church and State

By Jason Odell Williams

Directed by Charlotte Cohn

Berkshire Theatre Group

Naughton understands the need for restraint and we only see what she allows us to see and never gives us room for supposition. This is one of her finest interpretations of a character and one not to be missed by any serious theatergoer.

The Berkshire Edge

I Saw My Neighbor On the Train and I Didn’t Even Smile

By Suzanne Heathcote

Directed by Jackson Gay

Berkshire Theater Group/New Neighborhood

Naughton, who directed her father, James, in Erik Tarloff’s “Cedars’’ last summer at Berkshire Theatre Group, does an exceptional job capturing the pain, anger, sadness, and longing beneath Rebecca’s goofy-loser persona.

Don Aucoin, Boston Globe

Faith Healer

By Brian Friel

Directed by Eric Hill

Berkshire Theater Group

Frank describes Grace — a shattering performance by Naughton — as being “controlled, correct, methodical, orderly.” Her monologue, spoken from her bed-sitting room years after the trio’s fateful trip to Ireland, is an exercise in control, buoyed by healthy sips of whiskey. But it is more than Grace can manage. By the end of her scene, it is clear that her hold on life is, at best, tenuous.

Berkshire Eagle

The Goatwoman of Corvis County

Whatever plot there is revolves around Charlotte, played so humorously by Keira Naughton she practically gives the play a free pass through much of the first act.

Variety

Keira Naughton commands the stage in nearly every scene. This young actress, who also starred this season at Berkshire Theatre Festival’s ‘The Book Club,’ is both strong and subtle in her performances. Charlotte is a mentally sick woman, and Naughton portrays her perfectly – as if we (the audience) are eavesdropping into her life.

Times Union

Hunting and Gathering

Keira was featured in the New York Times for her performance in “Hunting and Gathering” at Primary Stages. Click here to read article.