First day of Dallas Fan Days is going by and we already got some fan donations from the panel Mary McDonnell did some hours ago. These photos were kindly donated to Mary McDonnell Vault by Elizabeth to whom I am extremely grateful for the generosity. Please do not repost without consent!

What a lovely surprise to wake up to. Last night, Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos participated to the world premiere of “For All Mankind”, a new Apple TV show of which Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica) is one of the creators. Take a look in the gallery for HQ photos from the event!

Actor Mary McDonnell talks about Gloria Steinem and playing her in her new play Gloria: A Life, now in theater through October 6. For info and tickets check www.mccarter.org

Prepare your luggage, cause Madam President is going to Dallas on 19th and 20th of October to Dallas FAN EXPO.
Info and tickets at their website

A bunch of photos from broadwayworld.com of Mary McDonnell for “Gloria: A Life” got added to the gallery. Take a look and enjoy!

The McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton is opening its season with a play about feminist icon Gloria Steinem.

Titled Gloria: A Life, it was written by the theatre’s longtime resident playwright, Emily Mann, who says Steinem asked her to write “the story of the women’s movement through her life.”

Two-time Academy Award nominee, Mary McDonnell, will play the title role.

“All through the ’80s, she was the leading lady for all my plays; I just fell in love with her as an artist,” Mann says.

The all-female ensemble cast portray the women who influenced Steinem throughout her life.

They are multiracial and multi-generational, women like Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation and one of her best friends.

The show will be staged in the center’s Berlind Theatre. The first act provides insight into Steinem’s personal evolution, using music and video clips from the beginning of the movement through present time.

The second act is an interactive talking circle with the audience participating.

“We are transforming the Berlind into a theater-in-the-round,” Mann explains. “You’re asked to respond how her story resonates with your story.”

It is a motivating experience in which, “people start to look at how they want to affect change,” Mann says.

Mann is heading into her final season at the McCarter Theatre Center. She says throughout her 30-year career she wanted to give a voice to the voiceless.

“It’s been a huge mission of mine,” she says. “And one I feel we accomplished quite beautifully.”

Of this particular work, she says, “I think it’s really, really important for us to be telling this story.”

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I added to the gallery a few clippings of magazines from different years, among which, one promotional ad for Mary’s upcoming play Gloria: A Life. Take a look and enjoy!

Tuesday, August 27, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

McCarter Theatre Center’s Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann will be joined in conversation by stage, film, and television actor Mary McDonnell who plays the role of Gloria Steinem in McCarter’s upcoming production of “Gloria: A Life,”written and restaged by Mann. The two will speak about their decades-long friendship and artistic reunion on “Gloria: A Life.”  Mann will discuss how she came to adapt Steinem’s life for the theater, their resulting friendship, and the choices she made to shape and tell Steinem’s story. McDonnell (“Execution of Justice,” “Dances with Wolves,” “Passion Fish,” “Major Crimes,” “Battlestar Galactica”) will talk about her celebrated career as a performer, what drew her to this project, and her approach to playing Steinem. A Q&A with the audience will follow the discussion. Community Room

Co-sponsored by the library and McCarter Theatre Center.

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