{"id":2055643,"date":"2025-09-28T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2055643"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:25:01","slug":"june-squibb-isnt-scared-of-coming-back-to-broadway-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/june-squibb-isnt-scared-of-coming-back-to-broadway-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"June Squibb isn’t scared of coming back to Broadway at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW YORK \u2212 Age is just a number for June Squibb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cThelma\u201d<\/a> actress, 95, has been nothing short of prolific since her Oscar-nominated turn in Alexander Payne\u2019s \u201cNebraska\u201d in 2013. Of her 102 screen credits, 54 of those are from the last decade, with scene-stealing roles in \u201cHubie Halloween,\u201d \u201cInside Out 2\u201d and ABC\u2019s \u201cModern Family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Squibb stars in the new movie \u201cEleanor the Great\u201d (in theaters now)<\/a>, which marks the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson. And later this year, she\u2019ll return to Broadway alongside Cynthia Nixon in \u201cMarjorie Prime<\/a>,\u201d a family drama that grapples with artificial intelligence and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. In the play, she\u2019ll portray an ailing woman who spends her final days with a holographic version of her late husband.<\/p>\n

‘The two of us, forever 35!’: <\/strong>Scarlett Johansson has a ‘lovely’ new friend in June Squibb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMarjorie\u201d starts performances at the Hayes Theater on Nov. 20, just two weeks after Squibb\u2019s 96th<\/sup> birthday. She intends to celebrate with a few friends over dinner, probably at one of her favorite restaurants in the New York theater district.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m mad about Joe Allen<\/a>,\u201d Squibb says in a joint interview with Johansson. \u201cI\u2019ve spent a lot of my life going there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd all of her money! A rager at Joe Allen!\u201d quips Johansson, 40, who won a Tony Award<\/a> in 2010 for her Broadway debut in “A View from the Bridge.”<\/p>\n

Squibb made her Broadway debut in 1960 as the stripper Electra in the original production of \u201cGypsy,\u201d and she last appeared in the Sara Bareilles musical \u201cWaitress\u201d in late 2018. She was drawn to Jordan Harrison\u2019s script for \u201cMarjorie Prime,\u201d which like \u201cEleanor the Great,\u201d explores mortality and memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing offered a Broadway show is pretty hard to turn down, period,\u201d Squibb says. \u201cI really just felt this is something I could do onstage. And even physically, (my character is) sitting in a chair talking the whole time. So I just felt yes, I can do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

On days when she\u2019ll have both matinee and evening performances, she\u2019ll likely just stay at the theater and order in delivery for dinner. Although back when she was doing \u201cThe Happy Time\u201d on Broadway in 1968, \u201cmy husband would meet me and I\u2019d have one martini, and then go do the show,\u201d Squibb says with a smile.<\/p>\n

With both her new movie and stage play, Squibb is pleased to be telling stories that show the realities of aging for women. In \u201cEleanor,\u201d her spunky, sharp-tongued character is struggling to move forward after losing her best friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you see women like Eleanor on screen all that often,\u201d Squibb says. \u201cHaving empathy for each other is important, because I don\u2019t think we\u2019re doing that enough now. But somebody might change by seeing this film \u2013 they truly might.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: June Squibb opens up about Broadway return in ‘Marjorie Prime’<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2212 Age is just a number for June Squibb. The \u201cThelma\u201d actress, 95, has been nothing short of prolific since her Oscar-nominated turn in Alexander Payne\u2019s \u201cNebraska\u201d in 2013. Of her 102 screen credits, 54 of those are from the last decade, with scene-stealing roles in \u201cHubie Halloween,\u201d \u201cInside Out 2\u201d and ABC\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[344468,339789,382415,305526,382416],"class_list":["post-2055643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-broadway","tag-june-squibb","tag-marjorie-prime","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-screen-credits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/In-Black-Rabbit-Jason-Bateman-and-Jude-Law-are-brothers.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}