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Jane Alexander: Broadway
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On Broadway, Jane Alexander wowed audiences and critics alike, earning Tony Award nominations for her roles in 1973’s 6 Rms Riv Vu, 1974’s Find Your Way Home, and 1978’s First Monday in October. Alexander ... won raves for her stunning portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in two miniseries—Eleanor and Franklin (1976) and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977) for ABC, garnering an Emmy nomination foreach production.
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Broadway.com has learned that Jane Alexander will return to the New York stage in an MCC Theater production of What of the Night?, a one-woman biographical play about reclusive writer Djuna Barnes. The piece, written by Alexander, Birgitta Trommler and Noreen Tomassi, is expected to begin performances at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on March 16.
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The early 1990s saw Alexander appearing on Broadway in the Wendy Wasserstein play The Sisters Rosenzweig, never giving a thought to entering the world of government service or politics. But a staffer for Rhode Island U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell called Alexander out of the blue and asked whether she would be interested in being considered for the chairmanship of the NEA. The agency had endured several years of controversy over what some saw as obscene art it had funded, and many conservatives in the U.S. Congress were angling for the NEA's elimination, or, at the very least, a reduction in funding. The widely respected Alexander, seen as a consensus choice who could heal wounds within the agency, soon made the short list and then was nominated by President Clinton.
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