The Washington Post, 10.1.14
"Actress Sarah Olmsted Thomas would like to teach you how to play chess.
The D.C.-based performer — best known for her work with the Happenstance and No Rules theater companies — is making her Center Stage debut as one of nine ensemble members in “Amadeus.” She doesn’t utter a line during the show — she laughs, applauds and dances — but beforehand, she’s a chatterbox, interacting with patrons in an elaborate pre-show devised by director Kwame Kwei-Armah. Half an hour before curtain, the ensemble members gather in the lobby and go about their late-18th-century business: playing chess, dancing and primping their towering wigs before vanity mirrors." Interview with Rebecca Ritzel
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Center Stage 2014
dir. Kwame Kwei-Armah
"Actress Sarah Olmsted Thomas would like to teach you how to play chess.
The D.C.-based performer — best known for her work with the Happenstance and No Rules theater companies — is making her Center Stage debut as one of nine ensemble members in “Amadeus.” She doesn’t utter a line during the show — she laughs, applauds and dances — but beforehand, she’s a chatterbox, interacting with patrons in an elaborate pre-show devised by director Kwame Kwei-Armah. Half an hour before curtain, the ensemble members gather in the lobby and go about their late-18th-century business: playing chess, dancing and primping their towering wigs before vanity mirrors." Interview with Rebecca Ritzel
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Center Stage 2014
dir. Kwame Kwei-Armah
The Washington Post, 1.7.14
"The questing Mary has the most latitude of all — she seems a lot like the puckish, wide-eyed wife in “In the Next Room” — and Thomas has a wonderful offbeat quality that blends sweet and sad without too much ado." Nelson Pressley
Late: A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl - D.C. area premiere
No Rules Theatre Company 2014
at Signature Theater
dir. Rex Daugherty
"The questing Mary has the most latitude of all — she seems a lot like the puckish, wide-eyed wife in “In the Next Room” — and Thomas has a wonderful offbeat quality that blends sweet and sad without too much ado." Nelson Pressley
Late: A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl - D.C. area premiere
No Rules Theatre Company 2014
at Signature Theater
dir. Rex Daugherty
The Washington Post, 6.10.14
"The long first act of this 2 1 / 2-hour show doesn’t really ignite with giggles until Sarah Olmsted Thomas storms in and bites off sauerbraten-flavored punch lines as Gretchen, the imperial yet sensitive German stewardess, and it’s Thomas’s game loopiness that makes it work." Nelson Pressley
Boeing Boeing by Marc Camelotti
No Rules Theatre Company 2014
at Signature Theater
dir. Matt Cowart
"The long first act of this 2 1 / 2-hour show doesn’t really ignite with giggles until Sarah Olmsted Thomas storms in and bites off sauerbraten-flavored punch lines as Gretchen, the imperial yet sensitive German stewardess, and it’s Thomas’s game loopiness that makes it work." Nelson Pressley
Boeing Boeing by Marc Camelotti
No Rules Theatre Company 2014
at Signature Theater
dir. Matt Cowart
