At the outset of her one-woman show, Turning Page, perfectly staged in the intimacy of Dixon Place on Chrystie Street, Angelica Page explains why her mother’s spirit keeps calling out to her. For one thing, Geraldine Page was an Academy Award winning actress who rose to fame in several Tennessee Williams’ plays, and despite the kind of accolades and honors that anyone at Sunday night’s Oscars would die for, no one has written her biography or truly told her story. Encouraged by a psychic, Angelica Page, Geraldine’s daughter with her third husband Rip Torn, does just that, and the play, Turning Page, as its title suggests, is a journey.
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