Anne Marie Welsh of The San Diego Union-Tribune reviews Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels with these words about Joanna:
Joanna Gleason is gorgeous and vocally deft.
She's sheer celebration of contemporary musical theater.
Curtainup.com's
review
of Joanna's role in The Normal Heart:
Joanna Gleason and Billy Warlock are enormously touching as
Dr. Emma and Felix Turner respectively. As the beneficiary
of some of Kramer's best comic touches, Gleason is also very
funny. She's also very fine when she steps out of her abrasive
persona long enough for a wonderful scene with Ned during
which he gets her out of her wheelchair to attempt a dance.
John Kenrick of musicals101.com
wrote the following
about Joanna in The Normal Heart:
Tony winner Joanna Gleason is a kick-ass wonder as Emma Brookner,
the wheelchair-bound doctor who finds herself swamped
in the first waves of patients infected with this ruthless
killer -- those who only know her from her comedy work on
TV will find this performance a revelation. Those of us who
know and lover her stage work will find this role one of the
most unforgettable highlights of her career.
Sam Sutherland writes on amazon.com about Joanna in Into The Woods:
...the standout (and Tony winner as Best Actress) is Joanna
Gleason, who gives the Baker's Wife a mixture of warmth,
pragmatism, and sudden, poignantly romantic radiance.
Ken Mandelbaum's
review
on playbill.com gives us some more information
about Joanna's performance in the famous-flop Nick and Nora:
After her triumph in Into The Woods, it was inevitable that
Gleason would be quickly snapped up for a vehicle, and the one she got
was unfortunately Nick and Nora. Gleason was unfairly criticized in the
reviews, for while her performance may have been a bit hyperactive,
it was necessary for her to pull out every trick in her considerable
arsenal. She was actually quite good, in no way the problem with the
show, and I can't think of anyone who would have been better. As
compensation for the show's failure, Gleason found a new husband
in its second leading man, Chris Sarandon.