“Then there’s Leigh Strimbeck as the queen. Her Eleanor is a middle-age seductress who shows us how she got Henry in the first place and also how she lost him. Eleanor is the key to all that matters to these other characters and Strimbeck blatantly uses subtlety to expose her motives and her reason. It is a performance to cherish“

— J. Peter Bergman, Berkshire Eagle

“The…action built to an emotional peak lead by Leigh Strimbeck as Leonata. She was a silent force early on, until she cracked the show wide open…Strimbeck’s performance defined the show for me.”

— Aileen Burke, Nippertown review of Much Ado About Nothing July 20, 2022

“One of the most emotionally affecting scenes of the recent theatrical season can be found on the stage of the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York. In ‘Lewiston’, actors Leigh Strimbeck and Daniel Hall Kuhn bring such heartbreaking depth to Samuel D. Hunter’s complex characters that one can only wish this scene will never end …”

— Barbara Waldinger, Berkshire on Stage

“Leigh Strimbeck is radiant under the summer sun…with fire in her eyes as she frets over her future. You can see doors to her heart opening in the presence of her grandchild…From her first bickering, spit out syllables and sentence fragments with Connor to her dawning realization of who the customer is to the final tableau, I was transfixed by this woman’s soul.”

— Patrick White, Nippertown