INTO THE BREECHES
Lora is lovely as Maggie, who is sweet, smart and warm….this is a wonderful contrast to her excellent portrayal as the cool and sharp Ruth in The Homecoming…
Broadway World
…a love letter to theatre and Shakespeare
San Diego Union Tribune
…an irreverent irresistible comedy…
…performance-wise this production is everything I could have hoped it would be
San Diego Story
THE HOMECOMING
Lora…is intensity personified.
San Diego Union Tribune
Lora is wonderful as the composed Ruth…
Broadway World
Melanie Lora... is mesmerizing as Ruth. When she enters a room, the scene belongs to her…
The Vista Press
THE HOTHOUSE
Melanie Lora plays her willingness to use her feminine wiles to gain favor at work with charm
On Stage and Screen
Lora does have a wonderful sequence….when she slithers around a makeshift settee, amusing herself with her own hedonism.
Stage and Cinema
OF GOOD STOCK
Her scenes…. are beautifully layered and filled with unspoken tension….
OC Register
Lora’s Jess, whose emotional fragility is masterfully shown….
Splash Magazine
BOEING BOEING
Melanie Lora makes a practical, commanding and straightforwardly sexy (and amazingly slithery) American….
Stage Struck
Melanie Lora’s New Yorker Gloria….generates some much needed heat
Backstage
SoCal’s favorite Lora is peppy perfection as Gloria
Stage Scene LA
ELEMENO PEA
Lora and Beck turn in first-rate characterizations, skillfully navigating the script’s quick transitions from hilarity to poignancy
Backstage
Melanie Lora excels at balancing the slings and arrows…
Daily Pilot
The ensemble cast is pretty terrific. Lora and Beck have great chemistry…
Broadway World
MISALLIANCE
Lora vividly portrays the ingenue Hypatia with the prescribed devilish twist
LA Times
Melanie Lora is a kick-in-the-pants
Gazettes.com
Perfectly played by Melanie Lora
Garden Grove Journal
The ever-wonderful Lora proves a delectable pink-and-white heroine, filled with as much spunk as she is strawberries-and-cream
StageScene LA
Lora delivers an exhaustingly rambunctious and whimsical Hypatia
OC Register
DINNER WITH FRIENDS
The performances are everything in this play, each one finely crafted and exquisitely detailed to match Donald Marguiles’ extraordinary dialogue….Melanie Lora tones down the smugness and authoritarian demeanor of Karen in a manner that is very effective. Her comments are both docile and yet underhanded at the same time and watching her, you can’t help but groan and say to yourself “Ugh, I know someone just like her.”
World of Stage
Lora as Karen works to perfection
Stage Scene LA
Scripts this outstanding are few and far between. So are superb stagings like this one, which will have audiences nodding in recognition of the emotions on display in every scene.
OC Register
THE GOOD BOOK OF PEDANTRY AND WONDER
Lora is dazzling, displaying verbal dexterity and delivering emotional fireworks, all of which covers up Jane’s hidden decency. It’s an amazing, virtuoso performance.
laist
COLLECTED STORIES
In some ways, Lisa is the tougher of the two roles — Lora is completely credible as a star student who makes up in drive what she visibly lacks in self-confidence.
LA Times
Chappell and Lora turn in sizzling performances that deliver the play’s underlying premise with smoldering power and sensitive foreshadows of the explosion to come
Gazettes.com
This production is an ideal nexus of material, director and actors
OC Register
TAKING STEPS
…the splendidly kittenlike Melanie Lora
LA Weekly
AMERICAN TALES
Lora excels, bringing warmth and emotional precision to her role as the proper yet passionate Rosannah, a model turn-of-the-century heroine, and her strong voice is put to memorable use in “Rosannah’s Song” and “O Happy Me.”
Variety
THE SEAGULL
“…her simplicity, her effortlessness…there was something pure in Lora’s look and ease that was just right.”
Variety