Broadway BUZZ

Lois Smith appeared last season onstage in NYC in I Was Most Alive with You at Playwrights Horizons, in Peace for Mary Frances at New Group, and in the films Ladybird and Marjorie Prime, which was adapted from the play she performed at Playwrights Horizons. Some earlier favorite NYC plays include The Young and Beautiful (long ago), The Grapes of Wrath, Buried Child, The Trip to Bountiful (at Signature Theater). Awards include two Obie Awards, two Tony nominations, NY Critics, Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, Outer Critics. Later this year she will appear in two films: Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank.