City of Angels (Stone) — The One Theatre Company, Chicago

"Filled with sharp, witty, often sardonic wisecracks, double talk and hilarious gags, City of Angels has laughs to spare.... You'd be hard pressed to hear finer singers who deftly land their songs better than Noel Koran and Kenneth Kendal as Stone and Stine."

Tom Williams, ChicagoCritic.Com, 7/11/2005

Julius Caesar (Brutus) — The Actor's Theatre, Columbus

"Noel Koran is touchingly human as the noble conspirator Brutus. Finally an actor lives up to Shakespeare's quote, 'the elements so mixed in him.' Koran shows us a principled statesman, a doting husband and a cunning assassin. There is no false masculinity in this characterization; rather, we see a man of plain emotions and fragile logic."

Doug Hoehn, Columbus Alive, 6/24/1999

Die Entfuerhung aus dem Serail (Selim) — Opera/Columbus

"In the non-singing role of Pasha Selim, Noel Koran looked and acted the solemn tyrant to a T."

Barbara Zuck, Opera News, 9/1998, p 105.