
Kathleen Turner was a box office bombshell in films such as "Body Heat" and "Romancing the Stone." In the last many years, however, Turner has focused her formidable acting skills upon the stage. And we theatergoers are better off for it.
In her segue from screen siren to stage maven, Turner has, in front of Broadway audiences, characterized such demanding roles as Mrs. Robinson, in the stage adaptation of "The Graduate" (in which she had a nude scene), and Martha, in the theatrical marathon that is "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf." For the latter performance Turner was nominated for a Tony Award.






Vigil, Morris Panych’s 1995 play now onstage at Los Angles’ Mark Taper Forum, through December 18, is a cruel comedy laden with unnerving action and disquieting dialog. Schematically directed by Panych, the show opens with arrival of Kemp at the home of the bedridden Grace, his terminally ailing aunt. 

Nearly forty years after her controversial trip to Vietman, there are those who can't forgive Jane Fonda for her anti-war activism. This world-premiere staging in Santa Monica is bound to challenge both that notion and the commotion surrounding Fonda's foray against the American government's imperial adventurism in that southeast Asian country. 

