My goal has always been, Do work you are proud of with your talented friends.
--Amy Poehler
"As You Like It" with The British Players, Spring 2023:
"As You Like It" brims with lines that are so familiar . . 'All the world's a stage . .' can be hard to make fresh and new. But this cast manages well. Elizabeth Darby as the meloncholy camo-clad Jaques, in particular, imbues the Seven Ages of Man speech with worlds of meaning simply by pulling out dogtags while speaking of the soldier, 'Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel . ." Suddenly you see the source of his meloncholy . . and the entire play takes on new depths of emotion."
"Edgar Allen Poe's Blood, Sweat and Fears" with the National Edgar Allen Poe Theatre, Autumn 2022:
"Darby herself does such a meticulous job of portraying the neurotic character that you completely forget Poe wrote the narrative figure in the show as a man . . her performance as the 'storyteller' is a true masterpiece and makes this one of the most impressive feats of the evening."
-Amanda N. Gunther, TheatreBloom
"Mr. Wolf" with Single Carrot Theatre Company, Autumn 2019:
". . . neurotic and bursting with too much information and thought to contain. She speaks her truths with no filter. She is shameless in her selfish pursuits, and it looks difficult to find footing for this character, but Elizabeth brings her to the forefront, faults in all. Darby does an impossible task of making her understandable, but not necessarily likable."
-Baltimore Independent Theater Review
"Night Seasons" with Quotidian Theater Company, Summer 2017
"Elizabeth Darby brings warmth and credibility to the role of a woman who is good-hearted and satisfied with her life."
--Ravelle Brickman, DC Metro Theater Arts
"Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite" with Molotov Theatre Group, Fall 2015:
"Elizabeth Darby’s vocal work as the Narrator in the second vignette was captivating–even her subtle puffs on her pipe sold her character to the audience."
--Kaley Bains, MD Theatre Guide
"Normal" with Molotov Theatre Group, Winter 2014:
"Sharing her husband’s matter of factness as well as his cold bloodedness, Darby gives the character an unexpected lightness that is refreshing."
--Robert Michael Oliver, MD Theatre Guide
"There is a third actor onstage whose indelible presence makes the entire proceedings eerily powerful. Elizabeth Darby . . . luminously becomes many more selves than Frau Kurten: Now she is a masked mannequin in a bizarre pas de deux with the perp, now she is one of the children he slew…again and again Darby becomes our personalized point of reference for all the killer’s prey, and her remarkably centered and strong performance importantly illuminates an undercurrent of the play."
--John Stoltonberg, DC Metro Theater Arts