In one of the comments someone wonders if I do my own blogging/twittering. I want to make it clear (in case the personal tone doesn’t) that I write my own blogs.… Click for more

This is the last performance in Feb. It’s gone by so fast. So guess who saw the show this afternoon and came back to see me?… Click for more

• Play is now locked up. No more changes. Audiences seem to be loving it. I need sleep!! Too tired to blog.

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• OMG. Glenn Close came tonight. Didn’t know till she came backstage with her very cool, handsome husband. #
• We’ve been talking and drinking wine.

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Question: My question is two fold (yes, I am greedy for this opportunity)
1. What are the 3 main ways someone can feel/seem young as they age?… Click for more

Question: Are you planning on bringing awareness to the disease ALS through your play? I heard on The View this morning you played someone health challenged.… Click for more

Question: Will you being making anymore movies when the play is
finished?  I so love watching you and am unable to come to NYC
From: Rita Erlenbach
 
Answer: ABSOLUTELY… Click for more

Question: Would you consider making your Walkout Tapes on CD’s so we
can use them on our Ipods thru ITunes?
From: Kristine Johnson
 
Answer: Yes.… Click for more

From: Kurtis

Question: Do you have any words of advice for someone trying to recover from anorexia? I am a 28 year old teacher trying to recover from it.… Click for more

From: Sandie Suttile

Question: I hope you won’t consider this question foolish. You look so wonderful. Would you possibly tell me who cut and colored your hair.… Click for more

From: Michael Meyer

Question: How’s your spiritual life going? Been meaning to read your book. You’ve always fascinated me. Crossed paths a couple of times.… Click for more

From: Julie

Question: Hi Jane,
I love your site.
I have been through so much in my life.
I lost my dad to suicide when I was 7 and my brother age 29 to diabetes and recently my mom on Thanksgiving Day.… Click for more

From: Dee

Question: If a good script came along, would you do another comedy?
You have a flair for this and we would enjoy seeing you.… Click for more

From: Sarah Jane

Question: Your Tulea is adorable, how old is (he/she)? What kind of
dog and how long have you had (he/she)?… Click for more

From: Pastor Keith Peri
Question: Jane, I am the pastor of a Gay Affirming Charasmatic
Christian Church in Atlanta GA. I have heard you speak about your
relationship wtih God, as well as your suppot for the LGBT community.… Click for more

There were 21 of us gathered in photographer Mark Seliger’s studio complex, a fixed up warehouse way down at the bottom of Manhattan.… Click for more

I took some meds last night that kept me awake till 7am today!!! Still, the matinee went well and was 17 minutes shorter than the first public preview we did 2 ½ weeks ago.… Click for more

Oh wow, my sinuses are killing me. Oddly, when I am on stage I don’t feel it although I just screwed up a line and I think the audience knows I’m sick., Tovah Feldshuh is out there tonight.… Click for more

Hooray!! I am so happy for the brilliant Danny Boyle and his team’s HUGE success!!! As I said in an earlier blog, my son, Troy, did Danny’s last movie with him, “Sunshine” and fell in love with him, so here’s a photo Simone (Troy’s fab wife) sent me from an Oscar party last night.… Click for more

Ok ok. I wasn’t going to blog. I woke up this morning sooo sick but “mamma hen Heidi” (Heidi Neven, our Production Manager) came to my rescue: Had a doc phone in antibiotics, some version of Claritin and Afrin–not that anyone out there gives a fuzzy rat’s a**, but anyway it seems to be working cause I know I will be fine for our 3pm show.… Click for more

“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old
age…Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit.… Click for more

Please read this article by Bob Herbert in the New York Times. It’s so important that people know what is happening to women and girls in the eastern Congo.… Click for more

Last night my friend, Elizabeth Sackler, the founder of the Feminist Art Museum in Brooklyn, saw the show and when she came backstage she found that I was getting sick.… Click for more

Jane Fonda returns to the stage, radical and chic.

By Mary Kaye Schilling
All Photographs by Brigitte Lacombe

It is a voice we’ve missed, a voice like no other—an amalgam of disparities and contradictions: tautly seductive, caustic and soothing, detached yet engaged.… Click for more

About The Women’s Media Center

click for the web site: www.womensmediacenter.com

The Women’s Media Center makes women visible and powerful in the media.… Click for more

It was hard today. We put in a lot of new lines andd other changes. I like the challenge but I started to feel flu-ish mid first act.… Click for more

By CHARLES McGRATH

JANE FONDA, it’s hard to believe, is 71. While the rest of us have just about managed one life, she’s had half a dozen.… Click for more

Manny Millar came to the show this afternoon and came back afterwards. We both burst into tears when we saw each other.… Click for more

OMG! I kid you not and I twittered about it earlier but, no kidding, during curtain call Tulea escaped from her (new) dog sitter and came out on stage.… Click for more

We had Sunday and today off although I had to get up at 5am today to get ready for the Today Show.… Click for more

This is our first 2-show day. I’m kinda tired so I will take my nap soon before the evening show. Last night my dear friends from the past–Laurel Lyle and David Hodges saw the show and came back stage. … Click for more

Looking into getting hardwired. The stage manager is also having hook up problems. I wrote my blog and it’s too long to do on a blackberry so may have to send later when I get home.… Click for more

Network power is down cause of high winds so only a super short blog today sent via Blackberry.

Today is our 5th public performance.… Click for more

Today’s 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln is being celebrated around the country (and with special fanfare in DC). My friend and former publicist, Stephen Rivers, just sent me an email telling me that playwright Tony Kushner, who is writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s film about Lincoln, says he thinks that John Ford’s “Young Mr.… Click for more

Question: Have you ever thought of doing one more exercise vid for us aging boomers? I found you had a blog and it hit me(hard)that I jumped flailed and kicked all over my livingroom through my 20′s with you.… Click for more

Normally we’d be doing a matinee today, it being Wednesday. But by performing Monday, usually a dark day, we’ll have our 8 shows this week without the matinee.… Click for more

This is a chapter from Joan Dideon’s 1961 book “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” The chapter is called “On Self Respect.”

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.… Click for more

We’re half way through the second act. I have a 15 minute break between my scenes and I can’t resist telling you how much the audience seems to be loving the play.… Click for more

Whew! Even though I had yesterday (Sunday) off I didn’t get to blog. First of all, my daughter Vanessa, Samantha Mathis and three of her friends all went out till 2am and I slept till noon which is a first for me.… Click for more

That’s me with braids on the right & Maria Cooper (Gary Cooper’s daughter) seated Far Left.

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We’re in the middle of a final tech stumble through and then, at 7:45 we’ll do a final run through (hopefully without stopping) before the first public preview on Monday.… Click for more

Here’s something you probably don’t know about that is one of really cool things about Broadway: Every matinee and evening, one half hour before the curtain goes up, the bells of St.… Click for more

The cranes are in front of the Eugene O’Neill getting ready to take down the signage for “Spring Awakening” (the show that preceded us…which I saw twice I liked it so much) and to put up the marquee for “33 Variations.” Lori Elwell, my pixie-like dresser, just asked me how I would feel seeing myself up on a Broadway marquis after 45 years.… Click for more

Feb ?? What day is it? They are all starting to bleed into each other. Work till midnight, fall into bed.… Click for more

Type On, Golden Blogger: Reading Jane Fonda’s Web Journal

By PATRICK HEALY

Jane Fonda, seen here in 2005, has been blogging about her preparations for the Broadway play “33 Variations.” (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)

As personal blogs go, this one is a pretty interesting read: Jane Fonda has begun her first-ever web journal to chronicle her return to Broadway, after a four-and-a-half-decade absence, as the star of Moises Kaufman’s new play, “33 Variations.”

The postings, which can be read here, are relatively unguarded for a celebrity blog: Ms.… Click for more

Yesterday my blog went up online although I’ve been writing blogs almost daily since January 5th. Blogging just to record what’s happening day to day feels different than blogging when there’s starting to be a buzz about the very fact of my blog and people are beginning to actually visit my site.… Click for more

Sooo exciting today. I’m moving into my dressing room—my hood for the next 5 months. It’s great. Here’s a picture of it.… Click for more

The Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention which I founded
in 1995 works with girls and boys to build their self confidence and
give them a vision of a future that is within their reach.… Click for more

Elizabeth Sackler and Jodie Evans at a fundraiser for The Women’s Media
Center at Elizabeth’s NY apartment.

Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan, Jessica Neuwirth and I founded WMC right after the 2004.… Click for more