Kathleen Turner & Deborah Cox Tapped for Would You Still Love Me If… Off-Broadway

We're loving this story. Stage and screen icon Kathleen Turner will headline Would You Still Love Me If… off-Broadway after submitting her name to the show’s casting director! According to The New York Times, the two-time Tony nominee had previously been in touch with the production’s playwright, John S. Anastasi, about another project. That didn’t work out, but Turner obviously kept him on her radar!

Directed by Nona Gerard, the play will co-star Broadway alum Deborah Cox (a pal of Anastasi’s son-in-law, hence she boarded the project), and will run at New World Stages from September 26. Opening night is scheduled for October 10.

Turner is set to take on the role of a mom of a woman considering gender reassignment surgery. She received Tony nods for Who’s Afraid of Virigina Woolf and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, along with an Oscar nomination for Peggy Sue Got Married. Cox will appear as the surgeon and has been seen on the Great White Way in Jekyll & Hyde and Aida.

Would You Still Love Me If… will also star Rebecca Brooksher and Sofia Jean Gomez.