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BOOK: Reprising Serial Mom in holiday photos
John Waters has a unique love of Christmas, and MARFA has a unique love of John Waters, so we decided to make a book about it.
Introducing A MARFA Christmas with John Waters.
Kathleen Turner, by Ethan James Green
Dreamlanders, friends old and new, all gather to appear in this MARFICTIONAL story – actors, behind-the-scenes collaborators and others who have worked with John Waters over the years. And though the book reads as if everyone was together on one night, the fact is, like the best gifts, it took a long time to wrap this up. Each interview is housed within a dreamt-up narrative set at one of John’s annual Christmas parties.This particular event may not be real, but the dialogue is all true to life. No words are falsified in this world, but everything else is untrue.
Produced by MARFOFFICE, with curation, design and production by Alexandra Gordienko, Julia Monsell and Jodie Hill, and words by Ross Aston. A MARFA Christmas with John Waters contains shoots and interviews, ephemera, one-off letters and rare archive imagery, accompanied by a short film by Clara Cullen.
Featuring Mink Stole, Kathleen Turner, Max Farago, Traci Lords, Johnny Knoxville, Ricki Lake, Senta Simond, Jeannette Montgomery Barron, Alasdair McLellan, Pat Moran, Jess Cole, Sophie Buhai, Ethan James Green, Ricky Saiz and many others on Santa’s naughty list.
Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice
The Town Hall
Thursday, December 16, 2021 @ 8pm
Finding My Voice takes audiences on a remarkable behind-the-scenes journey of Kathleen Turner’s extensive and well-documented career. Peppered with songs from the great American songbook, Kathleen Turner croons hits including “It’s Only a Paper Moon”, “I’d Rather Be Sailing”, “On the Street Where You Live”, “Every Time We Say Goodbye”, showcasing her trademark husky voice.
Directed by Andy Gale, Finding My Voice features musical direction, arrangements and accompaniment from Mark Janas.
A once in a lifetime chance to see a true Hollywood legend on stage, Finding My Voice is a deeply personal show packed with humor, great music, and one of a kind insights spanning Kathleen Turner’s exciting career.
Kathleen recently recorded the audio version of EVERYDAY VIRTUES: Classic Tales To Read With Kids by James A. Autry and Rick Autry.
In a world too often dominated by consumerism and social media, this book of stories collected by a father and grandfather team invites adults and children to listen to them together. Featuring the six virtues of justice, humility, courage, compassion, freedom, and respect, these entertaining and easily understood stories from all over the world focus on what makes us truly human.
Read by renowned actress of stage and screen Kathleen Turner, these tales will encourage and inspire both children and adults alike.
Featured Video
Kathleen Turner Q&A with Students, 2009
Recent Highlights
KATHLEEN TURNER and MAGGIE SMITH in Conversation with GYLES BRANDRETH
in support of the Royal Theatrical Fund
8th April 2021, 6:30pm UK Time
Maggie Smith & Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner met Maggie Smith in 2000 while they were performing in adjacent theatres in London’s West End – Maggie in The Lady in the Van at the Queens Theatre, and Kathleen in The Graduate at the Gielgud Theatre.
A series of pre/post show dinners evolved into a friendship which has endured the intervening 20 years. And yet, they have never performed together.
This unique event, hosted by Gyles Brandreth, brings Kathleen and Maggie together on screen for the first time. From either side of the Atlantic, the two iconic actresses will be sharing stories of their unusual childhoods and their remarkable careers on stage and screen. From The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to The War of the Roses, from Friends to Harry Potter, expect laughter (and perhaps a few tears) along with stories you have never heard before.
With two Oscars, five Golden Globes and three Tonys between them, don’t miss the chance to spend an evening with Kathleen and Maggie as they compare notes and divulge secrets from two extraordinary careers.
The initial broadcast will be on 8th April 18:30 UK Time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time, you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for one week. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended.
If you have any questions, please email faneonline@fane.co.uk
A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN CONCERT
with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, December 8th, 2019 at 3pm
Monday, December 9th, 2019 at 7:30pm
Ivoryton Playhouse, Ivoryton CT
Friday, December 13th 2019 at 7:30pm
Lyman Center, New Haven CT
Saturday, December 14th, 2019 at 7:30pm
First Congregational church, Madison CT
Sunday, December 15th, 2019 at 3pm
Sacred Heart, Fairfield CT
On TV & Streaming:
Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings
“These Old Bones”
Currently streaming on Netflix
MOM
CBS – Thursday, January 9th, 2020 at 9pm/8pm Central
Lincoln Center Presents
Tug-of-War: The Moth Mainstage
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway New York, NY 10023
October 12, 2019, 7.30pm
Finding My Voice (Cabaret Show)
Peace Center, Gunther Theatre
Greenville, SC
November 5, 2019, 7pm
Selected Shorts
Symphony Space
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
November 7th, 2019 @ 7:30 p.m.
Finding My Voice (Cabaret Show)
Broadway Playhouse
Chicago, IL
November 15 & 16, 2019
Kathleen Turner live onstage during her one-woman stage show, Finding My Voice – AMY BOYLE
The iconic Hollywood actress Kathleen Turner brings back her stage show Finding My Voice to The Green Room 42 in New York City on January 10.
Best known for her husky voice as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Golden Globe-winning star of Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor, puts her own life in the spotlight. For this show, she has new, never-seen-beore additions for this New York show, after it toured San Francisco to London, and beyond. Read More
Kathleen Turner at The Green Room 42
Kathleen Turner would probably be the first person to tell you that the idea of her singing in a nightclub would be an unlikely scenario - but singing in a nightclub she is. Long known for her unique and unmistakable voice, this great American actress has never been one that the public would naturally associate with musical theater, cabaret, or record albums. In point of fact, hers is a quite musical voice, melodic and mellifluous, with interesting rhythms, uncommon speech patterns, and individual intonations, so the idea of Miss Turner raising her voice in song shouldn't be that great a reach for the imagination. Nevertheless, as the famous smoky whiskey baritone has deepened over the years, one might suspect that this was an avenue of the performing arts that would be left unexplored by the legendary lady whose work has been vastly celebrated for over four decades.
SALON: Kathleen Turner wasn’t exaggerating about Trump’s infamously “awful” handshake
The acting legend sits down on “Salon Talks” to discuss her role on “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings”, Broadway & more.
Kathleen Turner, Getty Images
Kathleen Turner looks inward for wonderfully entertaining cabaret-memoir solo show
This is a side of Turner that we haven’t seen much of in a career that, as she proudly notes, spans 42 years.
By Kris Vire - For the Sun Times - November 16, 2019
Kathleen Turner on Acting
Conversations about Film, Television, and Theater
by Kathleen Turner, Dustin Morrow
Few actors have had a career as dynamic as that of Kathleen Turner's; success has followed her from the television screen to major blockbusters, from indie films to the theater stage. Over her forty-year career, Turner has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful actor, and, in her conversations with esteemed film professor Dustin Morrow, she shares these lessons with the world.
With her iconic wit on full display, Turner dazzles readers with her shrewd insights on the craft of acting and charming anecdotes from her own storied career. Touching on each of her roles, she expounds on the lessons she’s learned and describes her journey of discovery in the world of acting.
An epic and intense one-on-one master class in acting from the best teacher imaginable, Kathleen Turner on Acting is a must for acting and directing students of every age, established actors and directors, filmmakers, theater pros, and artists of every stripe. Buy Here
Turner, the husky-voiced screen star known for iconic roles in Body Heat and Romancing the Stone, weighs in on her 40-year career in question-and-answer format, led by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Morrow (digital film production, Portland State Univ.). However, the title sells this book short. Yes, Turner talks about her methods and how acting in films, on television (she started in the soapThe Doctors), and on the stage differ, but this volume is also a master class on show business. Turner candidly discusses her career and movies, with some no-nonsense, insider observations about herself and the film business, but this is not a juicy celebrity biography (she gave us that with her 2008 memoirSend Yourself Roses). No, this is a serious and insightful work on acting and directing and what it takes to make it in that competitive world.
VERDICT For anyone involved in film, television, or theater or wishing to be! – Library Journal•••
Few actors have had a career as dynamic as that Kathleen Turner's; success has followed her from the television screen to major blockbusters, from indie films to the theater stage. Over her forty-year career, Turner has developed an instinctual knowledge of what it takes to be a successful actor, and, in her conversations with esteemed film professor Dustin Morrow, she shares these lessons with the world.
With her iconic wit on full display, Turner dazzles readers with her shrewd insights on the craft of acting and charming anecdotes from her own storied career. Touching on each of her roles, she expounds on the lessons she's learned and describes her journey of discovery in the world of acting.
An epic and intense one-on-one master class in acting from the best teacher imaginable, Kathleen Turner on Acting is a must for acting and directing students of every age, established actors and directors, filmmakers, theater pros, and artists of every stripe. – GoodReads
TIME OUT NEW YORK:
Kathleen Turner brings her raw star power to the Metropolitan Opera
Portrait by James Emmerman
On February 7, 2019, Kathleen Turner made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment.
After more than 40 years spent dominating film and theater—in movies such as Serial Momand The War of the Roses as well as the Tony-nominated stage revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—Kathleen Turner is taking on a new challenge: opera. Starting February 7, the voice behind Jessica Rabbit tackles a nonsinging role in the Metropolitan Opera’s retooling of the French comedy La Fille du Régiment. We talked to the longtime New Yorker about moving to Tribeca from the Upper West Side and making her mark as the show’s Duchess of Krakenthorp. – David Goldberg, Time Out
Kathleen Turner making her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp. Photo by Marty Sohl, Metropolitan Opera.
Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano and Kathleen Turner as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment. Photo by Marty Sohl, Metropolitan Opera.
Pretty Yende, soprano, as Marie, and Kathleen Turner as the Duchess of Krakenthorp. Photo by Marty Sohl, Metropolitan Opera.
Playbill interviews Kathleen about her Operatic Debut.
“Risks are my business…
…Every new job, frankly, is a risk because there’s always a possibility of failure. But that’s my job. Unless I’m willing to risk failure, I don’t grow. And isn’t that what we’re supposed to be doing here on earth?”
Kathleen Turner Stars in Red Hot Patriot: The Kiss-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins for one night only: November 5, 2018
TSG Theatricals announces the developmental reading of "Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins" by Allison and Margaret Engel at the Tony Kiser Theater on Monday, November 5 at 7pm.
Reprising her critically-acclaimed portrayal of the brassy, adroit newspaper columnist Molly Ivins is two-time Tony nominee and Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner. With her iconic voice that "could smite a filibuster," Turner captivated audiences in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Berkeley. Now, a select number of New York City theater fans will witness her return to the role of the pioneer female journalist in this exclusive reading.
Reprising her critically-acclaimed portrayal of the brassy, adroit newspaper columnist Molly Ivins is two-time Tony nominee and Academy Award nominee Kathleen Turner. With her iconic voice that "could smite a filibuster," Turner captivated audiences in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Berkeley. Now, a select number of New York City theater fans will witness her return to the role of the pioneer female journalist in this exclusive reading.
All ticket sales will benefit the National Partnership for Women and Families.
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Kathleen Turner. Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File
"Finding My Voice" – Cafe Carlyle Debut
May 22 through June 2
Tuesday to Saturday at 8:45 p.m.
Café Carlyle, 35 East 76th Street, New York, NY
Notable London Press
Kathleen Turner: ‘Decades after Body Heat I am still referred to as a sexual icon’
The Guardian, interview
Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice review – a triumphant roar from Hollywood royalty
The Guardian, Review
Kathleen Turner Debuts as God
in David Javerbaum's ACT OF GOD
November 28 - December 23, 2017
George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Stephen DeRosa, Kathleen Turner, and Jim Walton
Film View; THE PLEASURES OF 'BODY HEAT'
(October 24, 1981)
REVIEW: Marriage as Blood Sport: A No-Win Game
(March 21, 2005)
How the Diva of Divas Did It
(May 20, 2005)
C'mon. Would You Cross This Director?
(February 3, 2008)
Crimes of the Heart, Director, Off-Broadway, 2008
