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As we know from Steve Bogira's cover story last month, Chicago is to segregation as wet is to water.…
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Oscar and Tony Award-nominee Kathleen Turner is making a return to the Great White Way by leading the cast of High, Matthew Lombardo’s drama of addiction and redemption. Turner stars as Sister Jamison Connelly, a nun with a checkered past who finds her calling working at a Catholic rehab center. When Father Michael Delpapp (Tony nominee Stephen Kunken) enlists her help as a sponsor to teenage hustler and addict Cody Randall (Evan Jonigkeit), her own faith is ultimately tested. Click through for a look at look at the production photos of this gritty drama, then stop by the Booth Theatre and see it for yourself.
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Golden Globe winner and Tony Award nominee Kathleen Turner, who is currently starring in Matthew Lombardo's High on Broadway, will take on the role of larger-than-life columnist Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The one-woman show, written by sisters Allison Engel and Margaret Engel, is expected to be produced in January or February of 2012, though the theater has yet to announce an opening date.
This West Coast premiere production is a reprise for Turner, who originated the bioplay in a 2010 run at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. In Red Hot Patriot, Turner stars as the brassy Texan reporter whose liberal journalism skyrocketed her to the national stage. From writing Elvis Presley’s New York Times obituary to becoming the most widely read self-proclaimed “pain in the ass to whatever powers come to be,” Ivins made rabid fans and enemies alike with her sharp-tongued humor and unabashed political criticism.
Turner received Tony nominations for her roles in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which transferred to London’s West End after its 2005 Broadway run, and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. She has also ...
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