Stuff critics have said about my directing work:

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Revolution's Edge with Plays In Place/Old North Illuminated:

• Sleepless Critic:  "Directed skillfully by Alexandra Smith."  "Revolution's Edge teeters from warmth to anxiousness to manipulation" while evoking "a note of consideration and compassion, even while blinded by fear."

• Boston Public Radio:  The production provides "a visceral sense of history" that is "fraught with building tension."

• Joyce's Choices:  "A uniquely engaging time-travel experience" that is a "Must See!"

 

Extremities with Also Known As Theatre:​

• Boston Stage Notes:  Best of Boston 2019.  "Brutal and nasty in all the right ways, dancing right up to the line of being obscene. What kept the play in my mind through the year, though, were the subtle ways it challenged the audience to rethink how we view survivors of rape. As the collective culture is finally taking steps to grapple with that issue, Extremities felt like necessary viewing."

• BroadwayWorld: "Superbly directed."​

• The New England Theatre Geek:  "Important storytelling" that is "feminist and courageous."

• Theater Mirror:  "A tightly constructed and astonishing piece of theatre" with "an extraordinary cast."

• Rabbit Reviews:  "A production looking to shake up the audience in a big way . . . AKA Theatre nails this one."

• We were also included in The Boston Globe's STAGES column and in the Critic's Notebook.

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A Good Death with Also Known As Theatre:

• The New England Theatre Geek:  "I cannot remember the last time a theatrical experience offered so much inspiration, so copiously and so honestly."

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Stuff critics have said about my acting work:

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Accidental Death Of An Anarchist with Praxis Stage:

• Ian Thal of ArtsFuse:  "Alexandra Smith's sergeants (one for each floor) are burlesques of strutting macho insecurity."

• Mike Hoban of Theater Mirror:  "Boudreau and Smith serve the manic action well as comic foils . . . [and] engage in a series of gags that draw on classic comedy bits from The Three Stooges to Looney Toons."

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Eight By Tenn with Zeitgeist Stage Company:

• Jeremy Goodwin of The Boston Globe:  "The performances are strong if not uniformly riveting . . . Alexandra Smith and Karin Trachtenberg, newcomers to Zeitgeist, each appear in four of the plays. Miller would do well to keep casting them. Smith specializes here in the fading-Southern-beauty type, including turns as a prostitute who spins fanciful stories to obscure vulnerability (“The Lady of Larkspur Lotion”) and, most significantly, the sadly deluded hotel guest in “Madonna” who is still so magnetic that it breaks the manager’s heart to throw her out."

• Al Chase of White Rhino Report:  "[Alexandra Smith's] acting in four of these plays in clearly the highlight of the evening . . . ["Portrait of a Madonna"] is the play in which Alexandra Smith, portraying Miss Lucretia Collins, truly shines . . . Ms. Smith has several long monologues that allow her to demonstrate the depth of Lucretia's madness and the desperation with which she clings to her fanciful imaginings . . . It is a tour de force performance that is not to be missed."

• Jules Becker of Boston Theatre Wings:  "In ["The Lady of Larkspur Lotion,"] Alexandra Smith sparkles as gentleman caller-entertaining Mrs. Hardwicke-Moore . . . In ["Portrait of a Madonna"], Alexandra Smith as reclusive Miss Lucretia Collins has the emotional complexity of a younger Jessica Lange."