Calista Flockhart Talks Return to the Stage After 20 Years Away

Calista Flockhart is going to be back on stage for the first time in 20 years!

The former Ally McBeal actress is starring alongside Zachary Quinto, Aimee Carrero, and Graham Phillips in a new production of the classic play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

Production photos were just released, and you can see those in the gallery.

In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, she discussed her performance in the play.

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“Whenever I did a play, I was usually the ingénue and one of the youngest people in the cast. And now I’m definitely the oldest person in the cast. And I am not the ingénue,” she said. “And that’s really fun and exciting. I could never play Martha without all the life experience. So it feels pretty wonderful.”

Calista decided to perform on stage again now that her son Liam is at college.

“I love theater. I love that it’s happening in the moment right in front of your eyes. I love going to the theater. I love being in a play. I love, obviously, that it’s live,” she said. “There’s no editor and it’s an actor’s medium. You’re on the stage, the director’s gone and it’s just very exciting to me.”

Here’s the play’s synopsis: “George and Martha, the American theater’s most notoriously dysfunctional couple, have invited the young and naive Nick and Honey over for drinks. What begins as harmless patter escalates to outright marital warfare, with the provincial newcomers caught in the crossfire.”

Get your tickets now. Performances end May 22!