Two years later, with the Barter Resident Acting Company in Abingdon, Virginia, Lowry's turn as Elizabeth Proctor in "The Crucible" inspired a reviewer to remark that she "brought to the role a perfect combination of tenderness and quiet strength". Lowry was also part of the inaugural company of the Wayside Theatre in Middletown, Virginia in Summer 1963; the 1967 winter season of the Loretto-Hilton Center Repertory Theatre near St. Louis, Missouri; the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; and summer stock at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1974.  1970s  In 1970, Lowry appeared in the first two productions of the brand-new Circle Repertory Company, which had been co-founded by her former Northwestern classmate Marshall W. Mason. The premiere was David Starkweather's "A Practical Ritual to Exorcise Frustration After Five Days of Rain"; Lowry later admitted that the actors "didn't really believe in this play. We had no idea what it was, although we liked David." The second production was Chekhov's "Three Sisters" directed by Mason, eleven years after he and Lowry appeared onstage together in Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" at Northwestern. In 1973, Lowry scored a personal success in Lanford Wilson's "The Hot l Baltimore", another Circle Repertory Company production. As the prostitute Suzy, Lowry was a replacement in the New York cast and then originated the role in the Baltimore production later that year. "Suzy is played by Jane Lowry and she is the best thing in the show", declared Richard Lebherz in the "Frederick News-Post". "There is a sincerity in her performance that comes through. As a hooker she probably is a flop because she is hunting for love instead of security and for a hooker that is bad news." The Baltimore Sun's R.H. Gardner wrote that "the two performances that most won my heart were those turned in by Eunice Anderson, as Millie, and Jane Lowry, as Suzy ... their appeal is compounded by the on-the-nose performances of the Misses Anderson and Lowry, the latter of whom at one point is obliged to appear stark naked a first for Center Stage." Over the years, critics commented on Lowry's resemblance to another, more famous actress. In reviewing the 1976 off-Broadway play "Cracks", Emory Lewis in the "New Jersey Record" observed that Lowry at age 39 looked "startlingly like a young Eve Arden".