Elegies - “Happily Wade keeps a firm rein on the proceedings, allowing the songs themselves to speak.”

"three and a half stars out of four”
Toronto Sun

Elegies - “The amazing thing about Finn's writing is that while they fill these sequences to the brim with emotion, they never spill over the edge into maudlin excess, over emotionalism or sentimentality. Discreet direction by Lezlie Wade….makes this possible.”

"four stars out of four”
Toronto Star

Elegies - “Death Has Never Sounded so Good”

“Tightly directed by Lezlie Wade…musical theatre, while always a challenge, is not rocket science. All it takes is a few good songs, a handful of actors who can sing, and a director who trust both the material and cast. Why has that eluded the biggest companies in town?”

"three and a half stars out of four”
The Globe and Mail

Book of Days - “Book of Days is an excellent illustration of what an equity co-op Production can be.”

“Director Lezlie Wade keeps the action moving fluidly.”

“three stars out of four”
Toronto Star

Book of Days -“Lezlie Wade directs with a keen eye and ear for the work's choral underpinning and overt sense of theatricality.”

“three stars out of four”
NOW Magazine

Last of the Red Hot Lovers - “Lezlie Wade has taken the work of America's premier comic playwright and created a wonderfully sharp and snappy look at the nature of love, marriage fidelity and hope.”
Meaford Express

Art - “Everything about this play is ingenious, from the marked rhythm of the exchanges to the stark simplicity of the set and lighting. Full credit to director Lezlie Wade.”
Waterloo Record

Cowgirls - “Thank you Betsy Howie and Mary Murfitt for such honest truth telling and thank you Lezlie Wade for such fine direction. One of the best, if not the best show I have seen all season.”
Mosiac Magazine - Owen Sound

Man of La Mancha - “To say the play is brilliant is an understatement and the Waterloo Stage Theatre comes very close to matching that brilliance in this production.”

“Lezlie Wade directed with tight control to make it all happen.”
The Waterloo Record

The Chimes - “In a world premiere, masterly adaptation of Charles's Dicken's The Chimes, Lezlie Wade brings to vivid life the poor who lived on the streets of Dickensian London, the politicians and the rich whose only interest in the poor was to patronise them or to put them down.”

“Directed by Lezlie Wade the actors get right inside the skins of the characters they portray, bringing them into sharp focus for us and bidding us feel the pain and the joy.”
Welland Tribune

Business of Murder -“In one of the most transfixing, fist-clenching, edge of seat plays I've seen for a long time, revenge is a dish to be cut up in small pieces and gloated over many times.”

“Direction by Lezlie Wade is certainly to be praised.”
Welland Tribune

For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again - “In the current Georgian Theatre Festival production, directed by the talented young Lezlie Wade…for The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is a very moving and deeply autobiographical work.”
Owen Sound Sun Times

Sylvia - “Directed by Lezlie Wade, this production of Sylvia turns into a passionately personal play.”
St. Catharine Standard