“Sidney Fortner (Lady Fidget) was splendid; her every movement, smile, and gesture with fan were pure Restoration comedy.”  Dudley Stone, Off-off-Broadway Review, on The Country Wife at Westside Repertory Theatre.

“. . .  Sidney Fortner . . . stole the show as the grand dame . . .”  Judd Hollander, Off-off-Broadway Review, on Spiral Productions’ The Importance of Being Ernest at The American Theatre of Actors.

“Sidney Fortner is the standout of the group, offering genuinely complex and admirable portraits of Calamity Jane and Lillian Wald.”  Martin Denton, nytheatre.com, on Children’s Crusader at Metropolitan Playhouse.

“Sidney Fortner, playing Amanda, has a Southern accent that is, for a woman from Oregon, impeccable.  And she moves with ease from the shrill, harassing mother to the aggrieved woman who either harasses her son even more or simply disconnects by using her memory as her own escape.  She walks that fine line beautifully between the abandoned wife, the romantic soul hidden in years of memories, and the challenged mother . . . ”  Cynthia Bond, Kilgore News Herald, on The Glass Menagerie at the Texas Shakespeare Festival.

“Sidney Fortner is a perfect fit for Mrs. Malaprop.  She is a wildly uninhibited and unaware middle-aged woman who gleefully slaughters syntax in the search for vainglory.”  Cynthia Bond, Kilgore News Herald, on The Rivals at the Texas Shakespeare Festival.

“Director Harborth’s seven-actor cast does well with the material, particularly Sidney Fortner as the forlorn Mrs. Rowland . . .”  Joseph Hurley, The Irish Echo, on Before Breakfast, part of The Pioneer at Metropolitan Playhouse.

“Sidney Fortner manages to make the wife – a Fury on the page – credibly sympathetic . . .”  Rachel Saltz, The New York Times, on Before Breakfast, part of The Pioneer at Metropolitan Playhouse.

“The Duchess, as played with subtle, eccentric, forgetful battiness by Sidney Fortner, is determined, at all costs, to ease the pain of her beloved nephew.”  Rochelle Denton, nytheatrenow.com, on To Fool the Eye for Boomerang Theater Company.

“. . . it’s the supporting characters who provide the real highlights . . . Harriet Radius (Sidney Fortner, who also designed the witty costumes.) . . . trade barbs as catty socialites wearing crinoline dresses as voluminous as their egos.”  Catherine Rampell, The New York Times, on Self at Metropolitan Playhouse.

“Sidney Fortner as Mrs. Harriet Radius, leader of New York society, gives a polished and effortless performance that demonstrates how it should be done.”  Victor Gluck, Theater Scene.net, on Self at Metropolitan Playhouse.