{{Notability|date=July 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} '''''Turning Page''''' is an autobiographical one-person show which made its world premiere in 2017 at The Moth in LA before its NYC debut the same year <ref>{{Cite web |title=Geraldine Page's Daughter Debuts Turning Page Off-Broadway|url=https://playbill.com/article/geraldine-pages-daughter-debuts-turning-page-off-broadway|access-date=2015-03-08}}</ref> has been closely watched during its workshop period by major critics like Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times who featured his review of the then staged reading on the cover of the Sunday Arts section and online <ref>{{Cite web |title=Angelica Page's 'Turning Page' a beguiling, uncanny tribute|website=Los Angeles Times |date=9 March 2015 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/theater/la-et-cm-turning-page-review-20150309-column.html|access-date=2017-02-17}}</ref> McNulty wrote "For those who have been touched by Page’s sorcery — and I personally don’t know any great actor who hasn’t been — Angelica’s virtuosic conjuring of her mother’s spirit is something to behold."
The play written by Angelica Page which explores her relationship with her Oscar winning mother, the late legendary actress Geraldine Page who died in 1987.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Angelica Page to Recall Her Mother in Turning Page Off-Broadway |url=https://playbill.com/article/angelica-page-to-recall-her-mother-in-turning-page-off-broadway-com-196590 |access-date=2023-07-14}}</ref>
==Development history== In 2012, Page began developing ''Turning Page'', as a play in which she portrayed herself and her legendary mother at the Actors Studio in NYC with the encouragement of its president Al Pacino and under the mentorship of its Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Kemp and acclaimed writer/biographer Patricia Bosworth who was a fellow Actors Studio board member and moderator of its Playwrights Directors Unit at the time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peterson |first=Tyler |title=Angelica Page to Bring One-Woman Show TURNING PAGE to ACtors Studio, 11/22-24 |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Angelica-Page-to-Bring-One-Woman-Show-TURNING-PAGE-to-ACtors-Studio-1122-24-20131119 |access-date=2013-11-19 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref>
==Productions==
The play was subsequently workshopped at the Off-off-Broadway Studio at Cherry Lane Theater<ref>{{Cite web |title=Photo Coverage: Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Ashley Visit Private Theatre's Turning Page |url=https://www.imdb.com/news/ni38453152/ |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> in New York at Circa Theatre in Wellington New Zealand<ref>{{Cite web |last=Flightdec |date=2015-06-14 |title=Turning Page at Circa |url=https://wotzon.com/turning%20page%20at%20circa |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=Wotzon.com - Events Online |language=en-NZ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=An Actress of the Highest Possible Voltage – Circa Theatre |url=https://www.circa.co.nz/an-actress-of-the-highest-possible-voltage/ |access-date=2023-07-14 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cardy |first=Tom |date=2015-06-03 |title=Angelica Page explores her mother's career and legacy in her new play |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/69081727/angelica-page-explores-her-mothers-career-and-legacy-in-her-new-play |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=Stuff |language=en}}</ref> and in Los Angeles at The Moth<ref>https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Angelica-Page-to-Explore-Her-Mothers-Career-in-TURNING-PAGE-at-Dixon-Place-20170111 |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=BroadwayWorld.com</ref> before its New York Debut at Dixon Place in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Turning Page |url=http://dixonplace.org/performances/turning-page/ |access-date=2023-07-14 |website=Dixon Place |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Geraldine Page's Daughter Debuts Turning Page Off-Broadway |url=https://playbill.com/article/geraldine-pages-daughter-debuts-turning-page-off-broadway |access-date=2023-07-14}}</ref>
==Critical response==
The play garnered positive attention from several media outlets, most notably from Pulitzer Prize winning critic Hilton Als of ''The New Yorker'' who called his full page piece in the Talk of the Town section of the magazine '''''Conjuring Geraldine Page'''''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Als |first=Hilton |date=2017-02-02 |title=Conjuring Geraldine Page |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/13/conjuring-geraldine-page |access-date=2023-07-14 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref>
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