Editing Kathleen Turner (section)

===Stage career===
After 1990s roles in Broadway productions of ''Indiscretions'' and ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (for which she earned a [[Tony Award]] nomination for Best Actress), Turner moved to London in 2000 to star in a stage version of ''[[The Graduate]]''. The [[British Broadcasting Corporation|BBC]] reported that initially mediocre ticket sales for ''The Graduate'' "went through the roof when it was announced that Turner, then aged 45, would appear naked on stage". While her performance as the seductive Mrs. Robinson was popular with audiences, with sustained high box office for the duration of Turner's run, she received mixed reviews from critics.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1768900.stm |date=January 18, 2002 |title=The Graduate's London term ends |publisher=BBC News |access-date=January 22, 2007 |archive-date=June 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611211507/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1768900.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> The play transferred to Broadway in 2002 to similar critical reaction.

In 2005, Turner beat a score of other contenders (including [[Jessica Lange]], [[Frances McDormand]], and [[Bette Midler]])<ref name="monster" /> for the role of Martha in a 2005 Broadway revival of [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' at the [[Longacre Theatre]]. Albee later explained to the ''New York Times'' that when Turner read for the part with her eventual co-star [[Bill Irwin]], he heard "an echo of the 'revelation' that he had felt years ago when the parts were read by [[Uta Hagen|[Uta] Hagen]] and [[Arthur Hill (Canadian actor)|Arthur Hill]]." He added that Turner had "a look of voluptuousness, a woman of appetites, yes ... but a look of having suffered, as well."<ref name="monster" />

[[Ben Brantley]] praised Turner at length, writing:

{{blockquote|As the man-eating Martha, Ms. Turner, a movie star whose previous theater work has been variable, finally secures her berth as a first-rate, depth-probing stage actress ... [A]t 50, this actress can look ravishing and ravaged, by turns. In the second act, she is as predatorily sexy as she was in the movie ''Body Heat''. But in the third and last act, she looks old, bereft, stripped of all erotic flourish. I didn't think I would ever be able to see ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?|Virginia Woolf]]'' again without thinking of Ms. Hagen [Uta Hagen]. But watching Ms. Turner in that last act, fully clothed but more naked than she ever was in ''[[The Graduate#Stage adaptation|The Graduate]]'', I didn't see the specter of Ms. Hagen. All I saw was Ms. Turner. No, let's be fair. All I saw was Martha.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/theater/reviews/21wool.html|date=March 21, 2005|title=Marriage as Blood Sport: A No-Win Game|first=Ben|last=Brantley|author-link=Ben Brantley|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 22, 2007}}</ref>}}

As Martha, Turner received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play, losing to [[Cherry Jones]]. The production was transferred to London's [[Apollo Theatre]] in 2006. She starred in Sandra Ryan Heyward's one-woman show, ''Tallulah'', which she toured across the U.S.

In August 2010, Turner portrayed the role of Sister Jamison Connelly in Matthew Lombardo's drama ''[[High (play)|High]]'' at Hartford [[TheaterWorks (Hartford)|TheaterWorks]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/theater/reviews/10high.html|title=Is This Rehab or an Exorcism?|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Isherwood|date=August 10, 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 27, 2011|archive-date=November 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114002009/http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/theater/reviews/10high.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The production transferred to Broadway at the [[Booth Theater]] where it opened in previews on March 25, 2011, officially on April 19, 2011, and an announced quick closing on April 24, 2011.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Kenneth |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/150047-High-Hits-a-Low-Broadway-Drama-Will-Close-April-24 |title=''High'' Hits a Low: Broadway Drama Will Close April 24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110627214038/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/150047-High-Hits-a-Low-Broadway-Drama-Will-Close-April-24 |archive-date=June 27, 2011 |website=playbill.com |date=April 20, 2011}}</ref> However, in a rare move, the production was revived, still headed by Turner, to undertake a national tour which began in Boston in December 2012.<ref name=Tour>{{cite news |last=Healy |first=Patrick |title=''High'', a Broadway Flop, Will Go on the Road |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/after-flopping-on-broadway-high-is-hitting-the-road/ |access-date=September 24, 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 22, 2011 |archive-date=September 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923201629/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/after-flopping-on-broadway-high-is-hitting-the-road/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

From August to October 28, 2012, Turner appeared in ''[[Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins]]'', a play about the legendary liberal Texas columnist [[Molly Ivins]], at [[Arena Stage]] in Washington, DC.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.arenastage.org/shows-tickets/the-season/productions/red-hot-patriot/index.shtml |title=''Red Hot Patriot''|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015060517/http://www.arenastage.org/shows-tickets/the-season/productions/red-hot-patriot/index.shtml |archive-date=October 15, 2012 }}</ref> In December 2014 and January 2015, Turner performed the same show at [[Berkeley Repertory Theatre]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Barmann |first=Jay |title=SFist Reviews: Kathleen Turner in ''Red Hot Patriot'' at Berkeley Rep |url=http://sfist.com/2014/11/26/sfist_reviews_kathleen_turner_in_re.php |access-date=4 December 2014 |newspaper=SFist |date=November 26, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129175853/http://sfist.com/2014/11/26/sfist_reviews_kathleen_turner_in_re.php |archive-date= November 29, 2014 }}</ref> She appeared again at Arena Stage in the title role of Bertolt Brecht's ''[[Mother Courage]]'', which opened in February 2014,<ref>Smith, Tim, (February 11, 2014). "[https://www.baltimoresun.com/2014/02/11/kathleen-turner-leads-gritty-revival-of-mother-courage-and-her-children-at-arena-stage/ Kathleen Turner leads gritty revival of ''Mother Courage and Her Children'' at Arena Stage"] . ''Baltimore Sun''. Retrieved February 18, 2014</ref> and playing [[Joan Didion]] in the one-woman show ''[[The Year of Magical Thinking]]'', based on Didion's memoir of the same name, in October and November 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arenastage.org/shows-tickets/the-season/productions/the-year-of-magical-thinking/|title=The Year of Magical Thinking|access-date=2016-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017185238/http://arenastage.org/shows-tickets/the-season/productions/the-year-of-magical-thinking/|archive-date=2016-10-17|url-status=dead}}</ref> In February 2019, Turner made her debut at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York City in the speaking role of The Duchess of Krakentorp in Donizetti's opera ''[[La fille du régiment]]''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/arts/music/review-metropolitan-opera-donizetti-fille-camarena.html "Review: A Tenor Reaches 18 High C's at the Metropolitan Opera"] by [[Anthony Tommasini]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 8, 2019</ref>