Love Song, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Playing Now Through April 21st.
“Corporeal poetry... Remy Bumppo’s Love Song is dynamic and delicious.”
“As Joan and Harry, Sarah Coakley Price and Ryan Hallahan are exceptional. Not only are they talented and exquisitely eloquent, the two actors have great chemistry together. They spar with intelligence and intention, always allowing the comedy to naturally bubble forth. And their side glances are topped only by their subtle and expressive body language.”
Eurydice, Writers Theatre, Fall 2023.
“Abraham’s production has the benefit of a truly lovely central performance from Price, a guileless and charming piece of acting that infuses the show with both honesty and courage. Caring for Eurydice and believing in the life-affirming nature of her relationship both with her dad and with Orpheus are crucial to the play. You have to believe in what they had if you are to invest in its loss. And so you do.”
“★★★★... As the title suggests, it’s told from Eurydice’s perspective, although much of the time she herself doesn’t quite know what’s happening, a quality Price conveys with a wonderful mix of humble intelligence and vulnerability.”
Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Northlight Theatre, Summer 2022
Nominated for Best Performer in a Principal Role and Best Production, Equity Jeff Awards, 2023
“Sarah Price, who has dazzled audiences in such productions as “The Wolves,” at the Goodman, and “Earthquakes in London,” at Steep Theatre, is brilliant as Louise. She brings to mind actress/comedian Sarah Silverman in the dry delivery of her comic, witty repartee. But Ms. Price can also bring tears to our eyes as loneliness and uncertainty haunts her character, wondering if her many unanswered letters to Jack means that he’s missing in action, or worse.”
“Sarah Price, Casey Hoekstra crackle with chemistry as the couple courting by mail... Price makes the utmost of a lengthy (but somehow not long enough) passage from “Arsenic and Old Lace,” as Louise prepares for an important audition. It’s a treatise on madness and a comedic high-wire act perfectly balanced between camp and absolute sincerity, and it is a stitch.”
“Hoekstra and Price’s performance is so magical that you feel you have been bestowed a gift from the past as you glimpse upon their beautiful love story unfolding before you. Both are making their Northlight Theatre debut, and their chemistry on stage is magnificent.”
The Secretaries: A Parable, First Floor Theater, Spring 2022
Nominated for Best Ensemble, Non-Equity Jeff Awards, 2022
“Price’s portrayal of Helena is the highlight of the night as she fully leans into the outlandishness of her character, resulting in a shockingly hilarious and seductive performance. ”
“Salem’s characters combined with Baker’s masterful directing took me on a subliminally provocative journey. The Secretaries is a uniquely queer and intersectional play, well matched by some of Chicago’s most talented actors and storytellers.”
X, Sideshow Theatre Company, Fall 2019.
“Price is fascinating to watch as the timid scientist forced unexpectedly into a leadership position. Her struggle to keep her sanity while also keeping her crew together (and alive) anchors the play.”
“H.B. Ward, Krystal Ortiz and Nate Whelden are all spot-on, but Sarah Price and Gage Wallace might take top marks for a long, chilling scene in which their entire vocabulary is reduced to its lowest terms.”
“The cast, led by the excellent Sarah Price, as Gilda, the mission’s second-in-command officer, is very good. Seen in the Goodman’s “The Wolves” and Steep Theatre’s “Earthquakes in London,” Ms. Price is great at portraying a woman who’s slowly unraveling before our eyes.”
With Love And A Major Organ, Boise Contemporary Theater, Winter 2018.
“Sarah Price’s portrayal of Mona’s child, who in this production was female in the first all-female cast of the show (with the permission of Julia Lederer). Sarah showed so much edge in this character, from a numb woman unable to wake her entire body in the morning, to a character so filled with life due to another’s heart… Each actress on the stage had a clear bond not only with each other but with their own selves. I applaud them for this.”
The Wolves, Goodman Theatre, Spring 2018.
Winner of Best Ensemble, Equity Jeff Awards, 2018
“★★★★... The ensemble cast is uniformly excellent... The girls come and go from childhood with its casual cruelties, as teenagers do, with Taylor Blim (who plays #2) especially adept at that navigation, as is Sarah Price (the geeky #11)...”
“Sarah Price plays the clever worrier #11, who’s relatable character brings dynamic through wry humor.”
“This Goodman production, directed with just the right balance of physicality, subtle nuance, and quirky humor by Vanessa Stalling, stars an exceptional ensemble of all-local performers... Perhaps the driest, funniest line of all comes from the studious No. 11 (Sarah Price), who, upon revealing that both of her parents are therapists, quickly but sincerely deadpans, “I don’t want to talk about it.””
“Guided by director Vanessa Stalling, a brilliant fit given both her movement-based aesthetic and interest in telling the stories of women in new and intriguing ways, each member of the ensemble is singularly gifted. Some are cresting toward a point in their careers where stages like the Goodman will become regular realities. Others will be worth seeking out wherever they perform. Not a single one is underused or written off.”
Harvey, Court Theatre, Spring 2017.
“Sarah Price as niece Myrtle Mae Simmons and Karen Janes Woditsch as his sister Veta Louise drive the production’s whimsy as they try to figure out what to do with Elwood.”
“Sarah Price brings a welcome jolt of youthful impatience to the role, and with it a keen sense of mordant comedy.”
Earthquakes in London, Steep Theatre Co., Winter 2017.
“There is much compelling staging and acting on display here, from Price’s forceful and latently vulnerable Jasmine to Cindy Marker’s cold, wound-tight Sarah.”
“Teenage wild child Jasmine, Robert’s youngest, is played with uninhibited savvy and skill by Sarah Price.”
“And as the sisters at the center of the story, Marker, Carapetyan, and Price have certainly found a way to bestow a great deal of humanity onto their characters... As Jasmine, Price finds a new balance between attitude and vulnerability.”
You On The Moors Now, The Hypocrites, Fall 2016.
“Drawn from the works of Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott and the Brontë sisters, “Moors” features a regular smorgasbord of young, diverse talent hand-plucked from some of the most lauded shows of the last year including Maurice Demus (“Sucker Punch”), Sarah Price (“Mai Dang Lao”), Brittnay Love Smith (“The Secretaries”), Deanna Myers (“The King of the Yees”), Emjoy Gavino (“Love and Information”) and Japhet Balaban (“Never the Sinner”), just to name a few.”
“In providing respectfully irreverent new angles on these not-so-little women—complete with an unexpected, gleefully anachronistic but thoroughly satisfying epilogue—and rendering them via a fiercely talented, charming and casually diverse ensemble, Moors scores.”
Mai Dang Lao, Sideshow Theatre Company, Spring 2016.
“Sarah Price is mesmerizing as Sophie – chockfull of authority and vulnerability...”
“... fully as tight as Steppenwolf’s cleaning crew, Sideshow’s believable ensemble—Price, Fletcher, Frederick, Tyler Meredith, Andrew Goetten, and Jim Poole (as the voice-over caller)–work well together (even when they’re not meant to). Price is especially affecting as an innocent dreamer who’s meant for more. ”
“Enacted with astonishing authenticity of place and person by every member of the cast.”
“Under director Marti Lyons, this Sideshow Theatre ensemble brings Jacobi’s riveting tale to life without pulling any punches or muting his message. Sarah Price, in particular, plumbs the depths of her hapless character and moves us in the process.”
The Sweeter Option, Strawdog Theatre Co., Spring 2015.
“Sarah Price as Joy has the most range: she brings some well-needed levity to early scenes, but also delivers some gut-punches near the end.”
Monstrous Regiment, Lifeline Theatre, Summer 2014.
Nominated for Best Production, Non-Equity Jeff Awards, 2015
“Sarah Price’s Polly is as plucky as she needs to be—and yet her main virtue isn’t heroism or even likability, but the way she invites us into her adventure.”
“If there has been a more accomplished comedic ensemble on a Chicago stage this year, I’ve not seen it.”
Solstice, A Red Orchid Theatre, Winter 2014.
“And then there’s the enigmatic Sita (Sarah Price), alternately contemplative and gesticulating, like a wild cross between Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Max from “Where the Wild Things Are.” ”
Northanger Abbey, Remy Bumppo Theatre Co., Fall 2013.
“As Catherine Morland, Sarah Price has the perfect balance of wit, superlative-prone enthusiasm and rubbery physicality to win our affection with ease…”
“In the lead, the effervescent Sarah Price (Catherine) continually delights in her unabashed reactions. Whether dramatically reading from her novel or swooning over a guy, the adorable Price is comedy perfection.”
“There are many reasons to catch Remy Bumppo Theater’s sparkling production of Northanger Abbey… But the main one is to discover Sarah Price, a young actress with relatively few credits but enormous skill, charm and high theatrical intelligence. Not only does Price seize hold of the show’s marathon central role… But she makes it entirely impossible to take your eyes off her... And her ability to suggest her character’s irresistible mix of fresh-faced naïveté, imagination, and a wisdom well beyond her years, is uncanny.”