
"Ms. Soland has developed several plays -- all interesting,
all clever, all unique. She is gorgeously talented."
- Charles Nelson Reilly
"Lisa Soland's Thread Count successfully bridges a modernist
narrative with an old-fashioned corny tale of a country bumpkin
on a sightseeing tour of New York City. It offers zippy Neil Simon-like
exchanges between her and a Macy's Department store sales clerk.
It's unabashedly romantic, while chartering a satisfying and emotional
drive that proves a play need not be sappy to be wholesome."
-- Guy De Federicis from Blogcritics Books (Re: The Best American
Short Plays of 2010/2011)
"If anyone could make a sitcom out of Ibsen's A Doll's House,
it's Lisa
Soland."
- LA Weekly (re: The Name Game)
"I thought, 'Thank you, God! How could I have not done this
play?' It's a wonderful thing to work with Lisa Soland, the writer
and also the actress in The Name Game. When you get to work with
somebody who is dynamic and very special it brings out the best
in you. And you don't work with someone special that often --
every actor dies for that opportunity."
- Richard Hatch (re: The Name Game, interview with Drama-Logue)
"A Breath of Fresh Air -- Lisa Soland's new play, The ReBirth,
expounds personal and unique ideas never before explored on stage."
- NoHo Arts District.com (re: The ReBirth)
"Throughout all of this, Soland's words bring out the humor
and hope that make life worth waiting for."
- NoHo LA Magazine (re: Waiting)
"Playwright Lisa Soland starts her ostensibly light comedy
with premarital sex and, over the course of her play, expands
that theme to encompass her loss of faith in humanity in an increasingly
solipsistic world. And in the journey from light to darkness...she
reveals a kind of truth that transcends moral diatribe. Waiting
becomes a kind of strategy for getting past prejudgments, and
the play turns into a heartwarming story about restoring trust."
- LA Weekly (re: Waiting)
"Lisa Soland's play "Waiting" searches the passionate
depths of the heart rather than keying on the fleshy surface of
sex."
- Crescenta Valley Sun
In "Cabo San Lucas" playwright Lisa Soland has penned
herself a fun and lively role as Grace, a suicidal robbery victim.
Those tired of playing second fiddle to the showier male roles
might take a page from the author of this one act, who wrote a
meaty starring role for herself... a great role for women, by
a woman."
Back Stage West (re: Cabo San Lucas)
"Her Grace, abandoned by a fiance as they were about to
leave for a Cabo San
Lucas honeymoon (and currently being burgled by two incompetents
as she attempts to bid the world good-bye with an overdose of
sleeping pills), is hilarious. Her progression as the pills begin
to take effect is a small tour de force of physical comedy."
- NoHo LA (re: Cabo San Lucas)
"Soland's work is so audience friendly -- she has an uncanny
ear for dialogue."
- Published in the Los Angeles Times