 “…the richest voice. Mr. Winston relishes each morsel of sound before sending it to the audience.” Octavio Roca….The Washington Post
“The show [The Merry Widow] was produced, directed and conducted by Darryl Winston, a man whose skill and knowledge are, perhaps, the Mount Vernon Players’ greatest asset.”
----Joan Reinthaler…The Washington Post
"And Darryl Winston brings a bit of class to the entire production [The Ring Cycle: The Musical] with his baritone voice as he alternate between a not too bright, henpecked Woton (chief of the Gods), tyrannical Hunding (husband of Sieglinde) and the production’s “director” who keeps insisting “They told me this was an equity show.”
---Rich See ….Curtainup.com
Regarding Mr. Winston's One-Man-Show, "ENCORE!"
Meet MR. DARRYL WINSTON, in the person of a beloved Old Time Baritone who is about to present one more boring and pretentious concert in his 4th or 5th Farewell Tour (Who can remember?). But tonight he skips the mundane concertizing and goes right to the great, lush, audience-pleasing songs usually held back for audiences demanding encores! Laugh, cry, and sing along with Mr. Winston as he reinterprets masterful melodies introduced, recorded or made famous by such "Old School" singers and immortals as Nelson Eddy, Lauritz Melchoir, Lily Pons, and John Charles Thomas."
...The National Theater Magazine
“Rounding out the cast is Darryl Winston whose pleasing baritone voice isn’t put to enough use...Goode’s script [The Ring Cycle: The Musical] just doesn’t give him much to work with.”
---Washington City Paper
“Nobody, but nobody does the lovely, sweet and innocent light-opera musicals [The Gondoliers] of an earlier era than does Darryl Winston and his Mount Vernon Players...”
---Rich Massabny….The Arlington Weekly
“As if that were not enough, director Darryl Winston added several songs from other Victor Herbert operettas, notably “When You’re Away” and “Mister Voodoo.” The singing [in Sweethearts] was excellent—much better than one expects in a community theater production (the Mount Vernon Players, founded in 1936, are the oldest continuously operating community theater in Washington). This quality was achieved by hard work; Winston auditioned four casts before making his final selection.”
---Joseph McLellan The Washington Post
“There he goes again! Impresario and also artistic director, Darryl Winston...has put together a wonderful cast of 19 actresses playing 44 roles, to present the 1936 play, “The Women”...This production of “The Women is so darn good and professional that impresario Winston should take it to New York after it closes on the 19th. Frankly, I thought that with so many actresses there would have been a flaw somewhere---but there ain’t.”
---Rich Massabny….The Arlington Weekly
"Dear Mr. Winston...you know more about me than I do!”
---Kitty Carlisle Hart….February 22, 2006
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