"Mrs. Brummett is masterfully portrayed by WSG veteran actor Laura Giannarelli, most recently seen in a more glamorous role in
All Save One. Giannarelli, returning to the role from last season’s See Rock City, plays the hardscrabble and tough-as-nails Ma Brummett with a salty edge that hides a vulnerable heart."

—DC Theater Scene

“Not that there's a notably heroic quality to Laura Giannarelli's production [of Widowers House] at the intimate Undercroft Theatre. It's simply well balanced, with each actor colorfully putting forth self-interests and contradictions….It's a swell night of Shaw.”

—The Washington Post

“You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were, and I say ‘Why not?’”

Back To Methusaleh (part 2 of 3)

"...Laura Giannarelli, her raven hair cascading over luscious robes, puts a sharp edge on Shaw’s satire and anger."

Back To Methusaleh (part 1 of 3)

"Naturally, in this first scene the Serpent is the star: Laura Giannarelli is luminously seductive, using her voice like a Stradivarius to lure Adam and Eve out of the only life they have ever known...Laura shines once again as Frances Barnabas—the double-casting is hardly coincidental-but here we get to see a less seductive character whose appeal is more down-to-earth."

—Andrew White, broadwayworld.com

"...each of the actors in The Gospel of the Family Barnabas creates a memorable individual portrait of his or her character, with Giannarelli’s mix of warmth, power, and intelligence leading the list."

—showbizradio.com

for Theatre J's production of
Pangs of the Messiah

Peter Marks, The Washington Post —
"The director and actors bring Shmuel's family to vibrant life, from Lindsay Haynes's terrific Chava, broken by worry that husband Benny will return to a life of terrorism, to Giannarelli's excellent Amalia, wed as much to a man's religious dream as the man himself." (click here for full review)

Trey Graham, The Washington CityPaper —
"Laura Giannarelli, playing Shmuel’s wife, compresses her formidable presence into the even more formidable persona of a veteran of many a struggle; her Amalia can mother sons and husband alike as they wrangle and plot, then summon a warrior’s resolve when it’s time to organize crowds at the checkpoints, deciding ruthlessly in one breath that elementary-school children ought to be deployed at a protest march and warning in the next that there are elements among the settlers who might easily go too far." (click here for full review)

Ronnie Ruff, DCTheatreScene.com —
"Laura Giannarelli as Shmuel’s wife is the strong, solid rock the family needs when the male characters make all the wrong decisions leading to a surprising but inevitable ending. Her performance is exceptional."

for Washington Stage Guild's
Dante's Inferno directed by Laura Giannarelli

Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
"Giannarelli keeps [Bill] Largess moving to low flickering lights and a dense murmuring soundscape. The churn and burn of Hell feels ever-present. Largess and Giannarelli forged the script, their own adaptation...with energetic language and comic relief, which includes an excellent gag about PowerPoint. That screen, those slides — that’s when you know you’re in Hell."

for Washington Stage Guild's 
Village Wooing directed by Laura Giannarelli 

Celia Wren, The Washington Post
"Village Wooing is a gem..."

for Washington Stage Guild's
Pygmalion

Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
"Start with Laura Giannarelli’s sturdy demeanor and incorruptible decorum as Mrs. Pearce, Higgins’s no-nonsense housekeeper; the way Giannarelli keeps Carpenter’s Higgins on his heels is a delight."

for Olney Theatre's
Angel Street

Jane Horwitz , The Washington Post
"Laura Giannarelli, too, does a fine job sketching in a working woman’s inner life as Elizabeth, the cook. She seems stoic, proper and passive at first — but wait."

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for Washington Stage Guild's Strange Bedfellows

"...Laura Giannarelli playing a gloriously imposing firebrand named Mrs. Banger..."
— Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post

"Two one act plays are connected by a performed reading of excerpts from the writings of and about Shaw by none other than Laura Giannarelli."
— Brad Hathaway, Potomac Stages

"The cast gives the work a vigorous staging, with Lescault’s brisk and officious general and Giannarelli’s bellicose female fighter providing the most fun."
— Steven McKnight, DC Theatre Scene 

for Washington Stage Guild's
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

"Laura Giannarelli and Lynn Steinmetz, embodying those patently stuffy dowager types of the late Victorian age, deliver Wilde's epigrams with verve..."
— Peter Marks, The Washington Post

for Washington Stage Guild's
Fanny's First Play

"...Lynn Steinmetz and Laura Giannarelli double with stalwart capability as mothers and reviewers..." — Washington Post

"...Giannarelli, with her clear, rich voice and stately presence, is also a standout as the pious, excitable Mrs. Knox." — BroadwayWorld.com

"...Giannarelli's marvelous representation of social superiority..."
— Potomac Stages

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for Washington Stage Guild's
Incorruptible

"Laura Giannarelli's last-act appearance as Agatha, Charles's blowhard sister and abbess of the competing monastery, is a refreshing...distraction just when things start getting a little too slapsticky." — Washington Post

"...Laura Giannarelli makes a fabulous entrance as the Abbess...and the energy level, the volume and the humor all step up one notch." — Potomac Stages

"Laura Giannarelli adds some late energy to the show with her Agatha, Abbess of Bernay...she comes on strong and never lets up...'" — Curtain Up