In our youth-obsessed culture, the stage career of Kathleen Chalfant offers an important lesson: Great talent attracts great roles, at every age. Chalfant was almost 50 when she had her official Broadway debut in Angels in America, receiving a 1993 Tony nomination for Millennium Approaches as Ethel Rosenberg, Hannah Pitt, Rabbi Chemelwitz and other roles. At 53, she triumphed in ...

Tina Howe’s 1983 comedy Painting Churches is a beloved slice-of-WASP-life centering on an aging Boston couple and the artist daughter who has come home to paint their portrait and help them pack up a lifetime of belongings. Off-Broadway’s enterprising Keen Company is reviving the play with a can’t-miss cast of Kathleen Chalfant and John Cunningham as Fanny ...

Broadway vet John Cunningham will join Kathleen Chalfant and Kate Turnbull in Keen Company’s forthcoming revival of Tina Howe’s Painting Churches. Cunningham replaces previously announced star Richard Easton, who has withdrawn “due to a scheduling conflict.” Directed by Keen artistic director Carl Forsman, Painting Churches will begin previews at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row on February 14 ...

Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant and Tony winner Richard Easton will star in Keen Company’s forthcoming off-Broadway revival of Tina Howe’s Painting Churches. Performances will begin on February 14, 2012, at the Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row, with opening night set for March 6, directed by Keen artistic director Carl Forsman. Additional casting and design team will be announced ...