Ms. Ashley is giving the kind of barnstorming, crowd-courting star performance that you rarely see on a stage these days.

Hers is an elegant star performance that stays within the bounds of the play.

'Comes now the star performance', began the lead editorial on July 7th, the day North began to testify, before a word was spoken.

It's just a star performance all around, and God knows we need those lately.

On a menu full of star performances, two dishes were standouts - especially because both are so often mundane when served elsewhere.

And though it's a star performance, it is also a remarkably generous one, which always seems to embrace and elevate her fellow actors.

Edwin Forrest, too, influenced the movement with his star performance in the play Metamora.

Now was her chance to give a star performance.

Along with the star performances, the faults of structure become conspicuous too.

Still, the star performances and some of Musset's witty social commentary make the evening more than worthwhile.