Turns Out Jo Beth Williams Really Can Act!
Why do you know the name JoBeth Williams? She’s probably most famous as part of the ensemble cast in The Big Chill and for her role as the mom in Poltergeist. In recent years she’s been doing guest starring roles in TV shows like Dexter, but right now you can see her on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse.
In The Night Is A Child, Williams plays Harriet, a WASP homemaker who has flown to Brazil to take a trip she’s wanted to take for years, leaving behind two grown children in Massachusetts, who have no idea where she’s gone. She meets a free-spirited doctor on a beach in
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de Janiero and you learn, over the course of two acts, that both women are carrying terrible secrets. This is a gripping drama, and I have to tell you that towards the end of the second act that left me teary-eyed and with goose bumps – now that’s a good play! It runs through Oct. 4th.
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