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AMBUSH MAGAZINE
trodding the boards
theatre & the arts
Volume 21/Issue 26/2003

by Patrick Shannon, III
CrescentCityChronicles.net
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

Sexy Music Again

(...) Two characters, Diana (played by that explosion of blonde haired talents, Grace Fraga www.gracefraga.com, was done with a wit, excellent timing, and yet a soulful vulnerability -sort of a Judy Holiday interpretation as one may remember from her films and work on the stages of New York.)
(...) Grace Fraga as Diana takes to the role as if it were tailor made for her abilities. Ms. Fraga, a professional stand-up comedienne knows well, the other side of comedy - sorrow and pain. She is a voluptuously beautiful woman who can really act, and does so with a sense of style and vulnerability that just barely hides behind her quick timing and clever witty lines. I look forward to the day when someone in the theatre community casts her as Serafina in Tennessee William’s The Rose Tattoo. This actress is made for that part.
(...) These fine performers of a deeply moving and meaningful Charles Kerbs play were directed by the very talented Chip Stelz (...) Stelz’s direction was as seamless as his actors performances.
(...) Sexy Music Again is dark comedy of the highest quality and was performed as such by a very top-notch cast and crew!

A little night 'Music'

Thursday November 27, 2003

DAVID CUTHBERT

(...)with Grace Fraga lively and smart-mouthed as Diana (...)

(...)"Sexy Music Again" is a kinky, amorphous "Two for the Seesaw," and like that play, the female character registers more forcefully than the male. (...)

THEATER REVIEW By Dalt Wonk
12-02-03

Musically Inclined
Sexy Music Again

(...) Grace Fraga and Michael-Chase Creasy draw us into this troubled vortex and offer us many poignant moments, where we glimpse despair hidden beneath the crude language of lust. (...)

trodding the boards
theatre & the arts
Volume 21/Issue 22/2003

by Patrick Shannon, III
CrescentCityChronicles.net
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

" (...) But the shining star of this production is the sister, Ofelia, played with perfect comedic timing and a perfect Latino accent by the incomparable Grace Fraga (www.gracefraga.com). The other performers seem to dim by comparison when she’s on stage and that’s saying something about Ms. Fraga. As stated earlier, she’s performing with a truly all star cast of big talents. Ms. Fraga brings light to the stage and the script whenever she’s in evidence. (...)

Lagniappe
Review by Theater critic David Cuthbert
October 31st 2003

BORDERLINE BONKERS

(...) and lively Grace Fraga as Ofelia, who is inconsolable one minute and flirtatious the next with the air-conditioning repairman, (...)

trodding the boards
theatre & the arts
Volume 21/Issue 10/2003

by Patrick Shannon, III
CrescentCityChronicles.net
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

By far the brightest, wittiest, and best of the lot is Bloody Sunday by the gifted actor/ director/ playwright, and now our town’s own, Lewis Routh.H. G. Steltz as Tink Turner, Carlin Benz as James Nicholas, John Gregory Winslow as the Bar Patron and Grace Fraga, as Christine Nicholas, are wonderful to experience. Watching H. G. Stelz and Grace Fraga work together is like a fireworks display on the 4th of July. These two highly professional actors have the chemistry of Mike Nicholls and Elaine May. They dazzle and run riot with their brilliant exchange of dialogue as they comment on the scene around them. Each should have a big star painted on their dressing room doors.

sappho psalm
Volume 21/Issue 7/2003

by Toni Pizanie
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

It's a Woman's World

I have been meeting exciting new women as well as hearing from some wonder- ful women from my past lately.

I saw Grace Fraga in two of Tennessee Williams' one act plays recently. I had enjoyed her as a standup comedian at the Barn in Cowpokes on several occasions and never realized that she is also a dramatic talent. Adding to her list of many accomplishments is her framing studio. I had not completely appreciated Grace until we were able to chat after one of her performances and I realized that I had seen her work at the Rivertown Repertory Theatre. I have become one of her fans. Grace is a native of Argentina now living in New Orleans for 15 years. Watch for her name in plays and comedic appearances in Ambush ads in the future. Thanks to Cowpokes for giving Grace a place to share her multi-talents on a regular basis.

trodding the boards
theatre & the arts
Volume 20/Issue 26/2002

By Patrick Shannon, III
www.CrescentCityChronicles.net
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

Aurora Borealis
A Review by Patrick Shannon Aurora Borealis, written and directed by Timm Holt.

Grace Fraga, as Nancy, a well-loved fag-hag or friend of Dorothy or whatever you want to call her in the play (but not a dyke) was delightful and kinetic as a handful of sparklers at a Fourth of July celebration. But I’m yet to see Ms. Fraga do a role badly. She is a talented woman who can turn into anything she is cast to turn into. I bet she could do the roll of a pickled beet in a bad bowl of borscht. Her Masochism Tango was a highlight of the second act, and both she and Michael Chase Creasy, as Jim, brought the house down.

Artists' Company Theatre
October 2002

Monday Night Salon #7, Reviews by Patrick Shannon, III

I was privileged to witness all the brightness and beauty of an evening of unique and original talent which, of late, seems to abound in our town.

Blue and Purple with a Touch of Green by poet and playwright Ivker Barry was a very sensitive study of a woman way over the top and on the edge as a "user" type who gets involved in everyone's lives but in reality has none of her own. Well written by Mr. Barry with a deep sense of the pain and self-delusional suffering such a woman must know, it was performed with outlandish style and bright stage presence by Ms. Grace Fraga, who was able to let her true empty self delusions glimmer through her bright stagy performance at all the right moments.

Entertainment News

Davis Cuthbert
Theater Critic
Bar Stories

Friday May 23, 2003

DRAMA! has come up with a valid format for a collection of original one-act plays: set them all in a gay bar. The evening comes up with a winner in "Bloody Mary Sunday," written and directed by Lewis Routh ("People Come and Go So Quickly Here"). Tink Turner, an adder-tongued queen, and his straight gal pal Christine are going from bar to bar drinking and dishing.

Christine's tolerant but religious husband James shows up, and there's a spirited discussion on the Book of Leviticus, which declares homosexuality an abomination. As the scripture-savvy Tink, H.G. Stelz is a riot, and Grace Fraga's Christine, getting ever-drunker, isn't far behind, while Carlin Benz is the confident "regular guy" hubby, played with wry detachment.

Entertainment News

Friday November 29 2002. Theater review by David Cuthbert for "Aurora Borealis"

"The strongest actors are (...) Grace Fraga as winningly flip gal pal Nancy."

"Review from a wonderful friend...brilliant actor & playwright Lewis Routh."
My dearest friend in New Orleans just has to be the incredibly talented and very funny comedian, Grace Fraga. (...)

And watch for Grace Fraga. she's not only a fine comedienne, she is one heck of an actress. Gifted with an inherent sense of comic timing and stage presence, Grace can easily slip into a character on-stage and make it her own. From her sensitive portrayals in Timm Holt's Aura Borealis to her comedic spin in my own Bloody Mary Sunday, both part of DRAMA's original productions, Grace always gives a moving and "lit from the inside" performance. Plus she is a real joy to work with!

And Grace is not just a stage actress and comedienne, she's also seen (dare I say weekly) on TV in many of the locally produced commercials! Her latest, with Phyllis Diller, is a scream!

She makes me proud that we have become such good friends.

A MUST , please visit Lew's website www.whattalewlew.com