The cast is uniformly excellent. Those playing younger characters are spot-on at playing tween-age girls [...] Kate Shine and Heather Bonahoom hit exactly the right uneasy balance as Anita and Denise slowly realize that Jude's taking their game a bit far—they know they should stop, but Jude wouldn't like them any more if they did. [...] This is a fine and finely performed adaptation of a chilling tale. Definitely worth the trip.
--Kimberly Wadsworth (nytheatre.com)
Director, McLeod gets solid, moving performances from her entire company.
--By Gwen Orel (Backstage.com)
Bonahoom gives the strongest I've ever seen of any of her performances to date. She plays tomboy, angry, bitter, unhappy, envious, wanting, lusting and lonely all wrapped up in one character. You sympathize with her character, but at the same time you want to send her to her room as punishment. Bonahoom has truely come a long way.
--David Slone (Times-Union)
Millie Owens (Heather Bonahoom) is Madge's teenage sister. Bonahoom is remembered for her unforgetable performance as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" makes the ideal younger sister as she again captures the hearts of the audience.
--(The Paper)
Bonahoom continues to be a real scene stealer as the rebellious younger sister, striking out wildly for attention in all directions while envying Madge's good looks and ease with the opposite sex.
--Marcia Fulmer (Elkhart Truth)
Bonahoom rewards us with her protrayal of the 10-year-old creature Helen. Does she seem deaf and blind? Yes indeed. Furthermore she never utters an intelligible word and has tantrum-throwing down to a fine art. She is absolutely captivating.
--Teresa Smith (Times Union)
Heather, handles the part of Helen with expertise well beyond her years.
--Jeri Seely (Editor-The Paper)
Heather Bonahoom inhabits Helen's dark and silent world with impressive believability. We're as alarmed as the other Kellers are by Helen's flailing and grunting, but we can also see in the girl what Sullivan sees: spirit, intelligence and, most of all, need. In the final scene we're suprised to realize that we've been rooting for Bonahoom's Helen all this time.
--Julie York Coppens (South Bend Tribune Staff Writer)
If you missed Heather Bonahoom last summer in "The Miracle Worker" you missed a great show.
--G. Wm. & Donna Leonhard (Fort Wayne-Letter to the Editor)
I've seen Bonahoom in several plays - and I'm more and more impressed with each of her performances. In "Meet Me in St. Louis" she is utterly believable as a young tomboy in the family. Put Hostetler and Bonahoom in a scene together especially where they're sparring, and it's like watching the real thing. The two young actresses play well off each other.
--David Slone (Times-Union)
It is the younger Smith children that steal the spotlight whenever they are on stage.
--Jeri Seely (Editor-The Paper)
Frequently becomes the center of attention.
--Marcia Fulmer (Elkhart Truth)
Bonahoom and Hostetler throw themselves into the girls' mischief with scrappy abandon.
--Julie York Coppens (South Bend Tribune Staff Writer)
Into the Woods- Lakeview Theatre
If there were comedy awards to be given I'd give them to Heather Bonahoom for her role as Little Red Riding Hood. Bonahoom can cry like the best of them, scream like a horror scream queen and just play innocent when the scene requires her to do so. No wonder Bonahoom has starred in several plays here as well as at the Ramada Wagon Wheel Theatre. She's got acting down.
--David Slone (Times-Union)
As for Bonahoom as Fredrika, I know Bonahoom is a college student, but she can still get away with playing a very young person. On the television show "Dawson's Creek," 20-something actors tried to pass off as teenagers - and not very well at that. But Bonahoom could have taught James Vanderbeek and Katie Holmes a thing or two about acting younger than their ages.
--David Slone (Times-Union)
Bonahoom turns out another outstanding performance as a young woman wanting to please both her mother and grandmother.
--Jeri Seely (Editor-The Paper)
Bonahoom is convincingly ingenue-ish as Fredrika.
--Evan Gillespie (South Bend Tribune)
Heather Bonahoom makes obsession adorable, and she's most winning in the close to Act One, "Getting it Back" playing a woman who confronts her boyfriend.
--Andrew Tallackson (Michigan City News Dispatch)
Bonahoom is the perfect Mary. Just a snip of a girl in the first place, it is a pleasure to see her pocket-sized dynamite personality present itself all for the love of the garden and her cousin Colin. Her temper tantrums are her way of overshadowing the sadness she feels for the goings on around her, stirring everyone into action. [...] Bonahoom can belt out the tunes and in the very next tune, weave a musical spell with her soft sound.
--Judith Avery (Michigan City Newspaper)
Bonahoom, who played Mary Lennox in a Millikin University production of "The Secret Garden," knows the role so well, she inhabits it with a force that dominates every scene.
--Andrew Tallackson (Michigan City News Dispatch)