Arms and the Man

"Miss Jones is a delightful Raina..."

"Jones is especially marvelous, tossing off Shaw's dialogue like it's nothing, exhibiting such a sure flair for cadence, priceless double takes, and a cute, coy coquetry that she smartly counterbalances Crowl..."

"Jones also brings comic flair to her role as Raina, who is in equal parts both a climber and schemer, as well as a rebel and a romantic."

"...marvelous performances [by] Jason Crowl and Amanda Jones. Indeed, Crowl and Jones are so good, they make the rest of the company seem out of step... Miss Jones captures and holds the audiences's attention with her disarming (literally) charm."

"And the cast is excellent. Jason Crowl and Amanda Jones are a delightfully winning pair. Their attraction for one another makes the implausible believable."

"[Ernie] Johns is particularly fortunate in the casting of Amanda Jones, his peach-colored Raina."

Bell, Book and Candle

"As splendidly played by Amanda Jones in Sierra Repertory Theatre's magical new production, Gillian Holroyd is an impressive figure, able to change destinires with a simple stare or wave of her hand."

"This is a fun cast. Jones is a commanding Gillian - stubborn, strong, sensual. She has the spunk of Kate in "Taming of the Shrew" and she looks right at home in her swank apartment and classy clothes."

Candida

"..in Ms. Jones's reading of the character, reserved and confident, you get the suggestion that the courageous decision is often not to flee from an imperfect marriage, but to stick with it."

"Amanda Jones is exceptional in the difficult title role. Candida must manage to seem young yet matronly, flirtatious without being lewd, witty without being flighty. . . and most of all independent-minded without being cruel to the two men who love her. Somehow Jones carries all of this off without seeming pretentious or artificial. Even when not speaking, she is the emotional motivator of the action... The motivations for Candida's behavior are sometimes hard to fathom, particularly in the choice she makes between Morell and Marchbanks during the climactic scene. But Jones's ability to convey Candida's compassion and the sacrifice she ultimately makes is both moving and compelling. "

Cyrano

"To the character of Roxane, Amanda Jones brought dignity, vivacity and a slight petulance (it is, after all, kind of annoying to constantly ask for witty protestations of love from someone you apparently care about); in addition to her beauty, she had the depth that made you understand why two men are in love with her."

Dona Rosita the Spinster

"Amanda Jones is rapidly becoming one of the Cocteau Repertory company's leading assets. Her disarming charm and convincing performances have enhanced productions of Uncle Vanya, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Lysistrata. As the title character in this newly adapted and rare revival of Frederico Garcia Lorca's Doña Rosita the Spinster she does indeed bring great sweetness and depth to Doña Rosita's sad odyssey from hopeful youth to hopeless middle age. Our hearts break as we see a vivid young woman, fresh as one of her uncle's beloved roses, condemn herself to an arid life in a changing but still rigid society through her misplaced loyalty to a feckless fiance."

"Amanda Jones is a delicate Rosita."

"Amanda Jones, now in her third season at the Cocteau, shows real growth in her portrayal of Rosita, anchoring the play with a solid, stony, aching performance."

The Importance of Being Earnest

"Crowl plays well with Amanda Jones They look good together and have that indefinable magic that acting teams yearn for. Ms. Jones has a pre-modern charm that doesn't hurt... Jones flirts, banters, and pouts, marvelously. This makes her the perfect Shavian/Wildean heroine. Her scenes opposite Crowl are special and go a long way toward making this a successful Earnest."

"Jones is a perfect little cream puff as Cecily."

"...the cast acquits itself just fine, with Jason Crowl and Amanda Jones particularly outstanding. Their scenes together really pop.

Intrigue and Love

"The most interesting character of all, played here by Amanda Jones with great conviction and panache, is Lady Milford, the British harlot who has been the Prince's mistress and is cause of much of the trouble. Schiller gives her a most surprising arc to play, which I won't reveal here because it's the neatest thing in the play: Jones is excellent as a haughty woman whose perspective gets tempered by events that fly out of her control."

The Magnificent Ambersons

"The freshest, most enjoyable performance is Amanda Jones as Lucy. Jones beautifully straddles both worlds and mixes a disarming honesty with a fleeting coyness to fully convince us that she could be queen of the cotillion. Similarly, her vigorous forthrightness and easy manner succinctly suggest the new age."

"Oldcastle newcomer Amanda Jones is an enchanting, captivating Lucy in a performance that finds piquant dimension and subtlety in an essentially ingenue role."

"Newcomers Gibson Knott and Amanda Jones bring fun, flair and magnificence to the Oldcastle Theatre Company's production of The Magnificent Ambersons... Newcomer Amanda Jones, whose New York roles include Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Bianca in Othello, and Olivia in Twelfth Night, puts her Shakespearean charm to the test as Lucy Morgan... Elegant in her performance, Jones successfully walks the tightrope between ambivalence and strength of character, making her irresistible to audience members as well as to George Amberson Minafer."

"But the real star of the evening is beyond a doubt Amanda Jones as George's lovely sweetheart. She has mastered her role with its fine mixture of budding romance, face-saving humor, and ultimate tragedy."

"Amanda Jones is a revelation as Lucy."

"It is impossible to resist the charm of Amanda Jones, who finds the playfulness of Lucy. She makes the young woman pleasant enough, but under her coyness is a weakness for George which makes one wonder if she is not a potential kindred spirit to Isabel."

"Knott and Jones strike sparks, reminding us of George and Emily from "Our Town." Jones has an appealing young woman to portray, and she does so memorably."

The Maids

"It is no small feat to find the chill in Genet's 1947 play, which could more easily be played for camp or parody today, but the Cocteau production... manages it. Credit an eye-opening turn by Ms. Jones as Solange... She is beautiful and scary, rational and deranged, somehow all at the same time. If your nanny-cam caught her, you would certainly have her fired or arrested or committed, but you'd also keep the tape, just to study Ms. Jones's performance."

Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh
(first New York production)

"...the three actors are never less than enthralling...Ms. Ives and Ms. Jones are perfectly believable in their own transformations. Ms. Jones in particular makes a long journey, beginning at naivete - her reaction to her first sexual experience, courtesy of her oafish husband, the king, is hilarious - and ending in a stark wisdom."

"... luminous Amanda Jones's Marie Antoinette progresses from innocence to experience in a stunning, emotionally complex tour-de-force portrayal. She begins as a fun-loving, well-meaning young woman determined to uphold majestic ideals learned from her mother... and moves through sexual awakening and motherhood to a fierce popular backlash that she cannot understand, gaining a courageous, stoic maturity during her final days in a Paris prison. Sumoning the full strength of her acting prowess late in Act 2 for a scene requiring passionate indignation, with her graceful upper-class demeanor, intelligence, and simmering sensuality, eyes ablaze, Jones recalls a young Elizabeth Taylor."

"Amanda Jones's performance as Toinette... reveals a softer side of a queen much begrimed by history's gossipmongers, though her oblivion does lead her to fatal blunders."

"As Marie Antoinette, Amanda Jones ably gives the most nuanced performance of the night; her character needs to go from being a sheltered, naive ingenue of 18 to a disillusioned - and dethroned - woman of almost 40... rather than being saintly, she is presented as ill-prepared, struggling as best she knows in a situation that is way over her head... Jones, a veteran of Jean Cocteau Rep, rises to the performance with aplomb."

"Marie Antoinette moves swiftly, covering 20 years in two hours, and holds its audience's attention though vivid characterizations beautifully acted by Amanda Jones, Samantha Ives, and Jonathan Kells Phillips... Jones is lovable as the young, innocent 'Toinette' and impressive as the older, wiser queen who has learned that even her closest friends have been too in awe of her position to give her their best counsel. This is a subtly nuanced rather than tour-de-force performance that allows the queen to grown in dept and substance in the course of the play without losing her girlish charm and personal beauty, implicit in Le Brun's final sketch."

"Enter Amanda Jones as 'Toinette' the sheltered daughter of Empress Maria Teresa of Austria, bred to please family and King and to symbolize the relationship between two nations - but also to keep her nose out of political affairs. As the naive, homesick Queen yearning for friendship and the sensation of feeling like a desirable woman... Jones conveys a royal's dignity and a schoolgirl's delight. Convincingly transitioning from innocent to disillusioned... Jones impresses throughout. Perhaps most memorably, she sparkles in a hilarious scene recounting the Queen's first sexual experience."

"Gross' style remains resolutely personal rather than historic, and it's given traction by meltingly subtle, human portraits from Caldwell's actors, the women in particular. Jones is there, in Antoinette's skin, acting all of the Dauphiné's many roles from the inside out: reluctant lover, well-meaning but disinterested politician, frustrated wife, devoted mother. When Jones incarnates these personas, she doesn't don them like masks but emanates them from some secret self that is full of sympathy for the doomed Antoinette. Until she is imprisoned, she never truly grows up; watching her commingled sadness and bravery as public opinion turns against her is to see a young woman wrestling with a fate for which she has had no preparation. The world is coming down on her, and for a few moments, Jones seems able to measure its weight in the set of her mouth and the cast of her eyes."

Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh
(second New York production)

"Jones plays Marie with a wonderful and frightening woman-child innocence; its a difficult role to make both probable and sympathetic -- the character was basically a spoiled rich kid, after all -- but Jones pulls it off, cooing her lines and occasionally trying for a grandeur that Marie can't quite manage. She's an adorable failure in Jones's hands, and it makes large sections of the play worth the running time."

Nowadays

"You're in for a real treat if you decide to see Nowadays at Metropolitan Playhouse... The eight-member ensemble is excellent, led by Amanda Jones, who is warm, questing, and just a bit naive as Diana... Michael Hardart is splendidly earnest and likable as Peter, and the chemistry he shares with Jones is terrific—they are indeed a couple to root for."

Picnic

"Sierra Repertory's Production of Picnic is performed by a superb cast... Amanda Jones plays the beautiful Madge with a touching sensitivity..."

Romeo and Juliet

"Amanda Jones's Juliet was a spirited, joyous, passionate rendering that was earthy when needed (particularly with her nurse), and she managed to blend Shakespeare and white trash. She grew visibly older as the tragedies mounted, but retained a teenager's confusion as to why all this was happening to her."

Uncle Vanya

"...and Vanya's niece, Sonya (Amanda Jones), who is painfully vulnerable most of the time, at the end appears unreasonably, but not unbelievably, strong: her only hope, of reward in the next world, is powerfully felt and infinitely sad."

Under the Gaslight

"Amanda Jones is radiant as Laura."

"Jones's steadfast rendering of Laura supplies the sincerety: she takes a couple of the play's purple passages and makes them sound totally convincing. Indeed, Jones is a handsome actor who has a quality uncommon among younger American performers: an innate sense of the period she is playing in."

Walking Down Broadway

"...Ben Roberts and Amanda Jones are funny as a more neurotic couple...Roger Hanna's perfect period sets are miraculous, given the tiny space. But so is the cast's ability to capture the mood and rhythms of the frenetic '20s."

"Powell's other characters go beyond formula and so do the actors. Elsie (Amanda Jones)'s willful shallowness is funny, but we see how she will age and it isn't pretty..."

"...Carol Halstead (as the peroxided floozy of a neighbor) and Jones provide perfectly timed comic relief."

"...Amanda Jones is a bright presence with a hard edge as Marge's fun-loving roommate Elsie..."

"The characters may be familiar in Walking Down Broadway, but they are never formulaic and in the hands of this able cast you care about not only Marge but Elsie, who Amanda Jones makes sweet and shallow and most likely another Eva in the decades to come..."

"...Jones deliciously evokes the young Susan Strasberg"