Bucks County Playhouse remembers Angela Lansbury

The late Angela Lansbury is an important figure in the legendary actors and playwrights who got their start at the Bucks County Playhouse, according to Producing Director Alexander Fraser.
“Angela was here in 1952, in a play called ‘Affairs of State,’” he said.
“She was an experienced film actress but had never appeared on stage. She traveled the summer stock circuit in a car with her very young son Anthony Shaw. Her love of the stage was set … and what a career that followed! She won four Tony Awards for best actress: ‘Mame,’ ‘Dear World,’ ‘Gypsy,’ ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Blithe Spirit.’

“In 2013, she returned to the Playhouse for her induction into the Playhouse Hall of Fame. May she rest in peace,” Fraser said.
In a 2013 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, at the time of Lansbury’s induction ceremony, David Patrick Stearns quoted her saying … “This little baby literally slept in the drawers of various chests [at the playhouse]. A sweet nursemaid took care of him when I was onstage. That was my introduction to New Hope, and a lovely one.”

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