Cherry Jones

Tony Award-winning Best Actress Cherry Jones who is currently starring in the National Touring production of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, sat down with Theatre In Chicago’s Anne Nicholson Weber to talk about the show and her role as Sister Aloysius, a role she originated in 2005. Along with the Tony Award, this role has earned her a Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and an Obie. Listen to the interview Stream or Download MP3

A veteran stage actress, Cherry Jones’s Broadway credits include The Lincoln Center Theater production of The Heiress, Imaginary Friends, Major Barbara, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Our Country’s Good, Angels in America and most recently Faith Healer.  She has also been seen in the regional and Off-Broadway productions of Flesh & Blood, Pride’s Crossing, The Baltimore Waltz, Night of the Iguana, The Good Person Setzuan, and 25 productions as a company member of the American Repertory Theatre, including Twelfth Night, The Three Sisters, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Lysistrata.

Cherry Jones also has extensive film credits including Oceans 12, The Village, Signs, Swimmers, Cradle Will Rock, Erin Brockovich, The Horse Whisperer, The Perfect Storm, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and the Lifetime Television movie “What Makes a Family.”

Throughout her accomplished career, Cherry Jones has been awarded two Tony Awards, two Obies, two Joseph Jeffersons, three Drama Desks, three Outer Critics Awards, the Sidney Kingsley, two Lucille Lortel Awards, the Elliott Norton and the Drama League Award.

Set against the backdrop of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, Doubt is the story of a strong-minded woman faced with a difficult decision.  Should she voice concerns about one of her male colleagues…even if she’s not entirely certain of the truth?

Theatre in Chicago contributor Anne Nicholson Weber saw Jack and the Beanstalk at the Goodman Children’s Theatre and has loved theatre every since. She is the author of Upstaged: Making Theatre in the Media Age, which includes interviews with Tony Kushner, Julie Taymor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Martha Lavey and Sir Peter Hall, among many others, and her work has been published in American Theatre Magazine and other national publications