“Truly amazing… courageous… unearthly spirit of a true survivor”
“Truly amazing…..thanks to the unearthly collaboration of Aaron and Sakata, this Master Class is one of the most significant highlights of the season in LA…..in the gifted hands of this director and his courageous leading lady, artists, wannabe artists, and their admirers alike will be swept away by the unearthly spirit of a true survivor…..”
Entertainment Today
“Sakata’s timing, presence and emotional resources are imposing”
“Master Class remains a remarkable construct, and it gives Jeanne Sakata a rich opportunity….Sakata meets the measure of the role’s demands….Sakata’s timing, presence and emotional resources are imposing.”
Los Angeles Times
“Sakata is mesmerizing… intense moments of unbearably sad emotional fragility”
“In the sections where the controversial diva drifts into fantasy…..Sakata is mesmerizing. And when she falls into a one-person dialogue between her challenging character and Maria’s boorish paramour Ari Onassis, she is uncanny in the delineation between the two—and as heartbreaking as a Piaf song in her reactions to the conversations. Sakata also seamlessly intertwines the rise and fall of this great artist’s infamous braggadocio with intense moments of unbearably sad emotional fragility.”
Entertainment Today