Questa by Victor Bumbalo  (Critic’s Pick – nytheatre.com)

Maestas and Benningfield are spectacular, and their scenes together are especially powerful." – Broadway World.com, Duncan Pflaster,
                     
"Benningfield is curiously magnetic..." – Edge Magazine, Ellen Wernecke,
 
I'd go so far as to call this one of the major new plays of the season… with the strongest work coming from G. Alverez Reid as Daniel, Dana Benningfield as Lori, and Jason Alan Griffin, as Richard...   – nytheatre.com  Martin Denton

North Fork by Mark Dunn (Nominated “Best Featured Actress,” NJ Theatre Season -- NJ Star-Ledger)

Ms. Benningfield’s intelligence and delicacy are affecting and real.  – New York Times, Alvin Klein

…a particularly good performance from Dana Benningfield. It's one of the more beguiling performances of the season. – Star-Ledger, Peter Filichia

Ms. Benningfield is the kind of actress you cannot keep your eyes off.  Not because she is pulling focus, but because her portrayal is so richly drawn and so truthfully played that you want to know her every reaction...  – triCity News, Nick Montesano

Song of Grendelyn by Russell Davis

DANA BENNINGFIELD is an actress of such skill and charm, she seduces her audience into believing right from the start... Benningfield creates a strong sense of intimacy almost before a word is spoken. – New York Times, Naomi Segal

Benningfield's calm, sensitive delivery begs sympathy…– Daily Record, newsroom

In Search of Red River Dog by Sandra Perlman

"There is a reason to see In Search of Red River Dog -- it is the strikingly good performance of Dana Benningfield.  Benningfield finds every nuance in the unhappy Paulette." – Two River Times, Phil Dorian

The sense of loss is made more acute because Dana Benningfield and Jeff Farkash have a wonderful chemistry. 
– Star-Ledger, Peter Filichia

Benningfield turns in a finely wrought performance as the young wife...  – Asbury Park Press, Gretchen C. Van Benthuysen
                                                                                               

Winterizing the Summer House by Gino DiIorio

…compelling performances by the actors with Jacqueline Berger's well-paced, sexually charged direction....  – New York Times, Naomi Segel,

Benningfield is a sublime actor. She does more while listening than most do speaking, and more with a glance than most with a flourish. – Two River Times, Philip Dorian

Lemonade by Mike Folie

Ben Masur as Jim and Dana Benningfield as Jane are especially appealing and generate a surprising amount of chemistry.  Benningfield is an ideal Jane…  – Talkin Broadway.com, Bob Rendell

The four actors are brilliant… Benningfield, as the "Lemonade" wife-in-jeopardy, gets it just right...– The Coaster

Benningfield comes off most like a real person; warm and caring and generous at heart, but also prickly…. – Asbury Park Press, Tom Chesek

A Child’s Guide to Innocence by Vincent Sessa

''A Child's Guide to Innocence'' by Vincent Sessa, is as delicate and nuanced a drama as you'll find, its three actresses telling a sublime intergenerational tale beautifully.
In general Mr. Sessa shows great restraint, as does the director, Dana Benningfield; they don't try to do too much with the story, and thereby do quite a lot. It's a lovely portrait of how ordinary lives can be defined by a few pivotal moments, of how the world's great events can have a profound impact at a very small, personal level. --New York Times – Neil Genzlinger

…splendidly directed by Dana Benningfield. An actress herself, the director brings out the nuances of the characters as they re-live three days, but decades apart. "A Child's Guide to Innocence" is highly recommended as an emotional and intellectual pleasure.  The Link News – Madeline Schulman

Under the resourceful direction of Dana Benningfield, three actresses have the task of playing all the roles in the three scene 90- minute play. PrincetonInfo.com- Simon Saltzman