The Daughter In-Law - Mint Theatre Company

The New York Times
review by Bruce Weber

... each character has a fully grounded and virtually unshakable sense of his or her own just deserts, and as these expectations bang into one another again and again, the pain that is created is both viscerally sharp and chronically throbbing. Rarely do you see lives so persuasively scraped raw onstage.

... a patient, confident production, well acted by an ensemble that has obviously worked hard and to good effect on the distinct (and difficult) Nottinghamshire accent, and that is especially good at keeping the characters in period in spite of the temptation to render Lawrence's forward-looking realism in a more contemporary performance idiom.

Ms. McClintock does a thoughtful and engaging turn as Mrs. Purdy, wisely understating the eccentricity and selfishness of a character who could easily have become overly comic, without dispensing with idiosyncrasy.

American Theater Web
review by Andy Propst

It comes as a pleasant change of pace when Mrs. Purdy, a neighbor, shows up to interrupt things. After some initial worrying about Joe's arm and more talk about the mines (Mrs. Purdy's husband has been demoted in what would be, today, an age discrimination lawsuit), she gets to the point. Her daughter is pregnant by Mrs. Gascoynes' older, recently married, son Luther. Mrs. Purdy, in an effort to keep things quiet and save her daughter's reputation, has come to request what seems to have been the going-rate for "hush money" in the early twentieth century.

One can tell that the company has thoroughly investigated the text and sought to find the inner truths for these characters. When, for instance, Jodie Lynne McClintock, as Mrs. Purdy enters, one sees that there is something on her mind from the weak smiles that she gives to Joe.

NYTheatre.com

The ensemble of five actors all do excellent work, a volatile bunch - count on something to occur . . .  Jodie Lynne McClintock is memorable as Mrs. Purdy, the pragmatic mother of Luther's pre-nuptial paramour.

CurtainUp.com

To round out the overall excellence of the performances there's Jodie Lynne McClintock as the mother of a less uppity girl . . .

TheatreMania.com

Jodie Lynne McClintock equals the others in locating the Nottinghamshire grit and humility within herself.

New York Post
review by Clive Barnes

"Jodie Lynne McClintock is wonderful."

The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter
review by Steven F. Bloom

"Jodie Lynne McClintock does very well as Cathleen, providing an appropriately respectful sounding board for Mary in Act Three, while also conveying an uneasy suspicion about Mary's behavior. Her drunkenness is believable and humorous, enjoyed with a lightness that is in obvious contrast with the increasingly somber intoxication of the Tyrones."

A Curtain Up
review by Macey Levin

A powerful performance is delivered by Jodie Lynne McClintock . . . McClintock is fanatical as Annie Lock, but it is difficult to dislike her. Though she represents the destruction of the aboriginal culture, the strength in her faith lends her mission legitimacy. Her scene with Daisy are lessons in "less is more". She does not pontificate, she simply says what she believes and it is striking.

Talkin' Broadway
review by Matthew Murray

Perhaps the most interesting character is Jodie Lynne McClintock's Annie Lock, the missionary who becomes Daisy's ideological combatant. Truly yin and yang, the two are at odds for a great deal of the play, until late in the second act, when a striking scene demands the audience questions its own perceptions of the characters, shining light on the similarities between Annie and Daisy that go deeper than had previously been suggested.

Sightlines
review by Francine Russo

"My mother always warned me about cowboys," giggles Marie (Jodie Lynne McClintock), who in the play's fantasy becomes Rex's lascivious horse. The cowboy and his amore banter suggestively on the way to the barn. As in dreams, the events make no sense, but the emotions behind them do - loss and fear and longing. A remarkable ensemble (Hope Clarke, Jodie Lynne McClintock, Sheriden Thomas, John Freimann, Michael Shelle, Judith Van Buren) makes his heartbreak -- and much else -- visceral.

Wuthering Heights - Paper Mill Playhouse

Princeton Packet Theater Critic
review by Stuart Duncan

Acting honors for the evening, however, go to Jodie Lynne McClintock as the servant Nelly Dean. Pressed into service by both families and asked by adaptor Johanson to keep explaining what is going on, she almost never leaves the stage and is rewarded at the final curtain by the loudest applause.

Pitt News
review by John Righetti

Of exceptional talent is Jodie Lynne McClintock in the role of Anna Livia. Her final 45-minute monologue is magnificent.

Ms. McClintock is a remarkable actress of the Sada Thompson type: hefty and not beautiful, she is a wonderfully engaging and authentic Irish earth mother. Her moods are kaleidoscopic, kinetic, incessant.

Her brogue always seems right, indicative that her station in life is not all that she would wish. And yet her love for her husband, Humphrey Chipen Earwicker... is not only sincere but constant.