Annie’s Playing Ann! TV Fave Annie Potts Tapped to Lead Ann National Tour

Screen star Annie Potts, who recently appeared on Broadway as the trapeze-swinging Berthe in Pippin, has been tapped to lead a forthcoming national tour of Ann, slated for spring 2016. The play is written by Holland Taylor, who was nominated for a Tony Award in 2013 for her performance in the Great White Way production. The tour will play Dallas, Texas (naturally) from March 22 through April 3, 2016. Additional dates will be announced later.

The one-woman show follows Ann Richards, the famed and charismatic former governor of Texas. Ann brings the audience face to face with the political icon, whose personality was said to be bigger than the state from which she hailed. The play premiered in Gavleston, Texas in 2010 and went on to play San Antonio, Austin, Chicago and Washington, D.C. before opening on Broadway at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre on March 7, 2013.

In addition to Pippin, Potts appeared on Broadway in God of Carnage in 2009. She garnered an Emmy nomination for the Lifetime drama series Any Day Now. Her additional film and TV credits include Designing Women, GCB, Corvette Summer, Love & War, Pretty in Pink, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Toy Story and Toy Story 2.