Jan Maxwell
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Jan Maxwell was nominated for two Tony Awards® in 2010 for The Royal Family and for Lend Me A Tenor. She received the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress for The Royal Family.
Other Broadway: Coram Boy (Tony, Drama Desk noms), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Drama Desk Award, Tony nom.), Sixteen Wounded ...
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Chris Carmack, Jan Maxwell, Alec Baldwin and Richard Easton during the Curtain Call for The Opening Night Performance of The Roundabout Theatre Company's Production of ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City. March 16, 2006

Chris Carmack, Jan Maxwell, Alec Baldwin and Richard Easton during the Curtain Call for The Opening Night Performance of The Roundabout Theatre Company's Production of ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City. March 16, 2006

Jan Maxwell attends the Broadway Opening Night of 'Lillian Helman's The Little Foxes' at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on April 19, 2017 in New York City

Jan Maxwell attends the 30th Annual Second Stage All-Star Bowling Classic at Lucky Strike on January 30, 2017 in New York City.
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PerformancesJan Maxwell Biography
Jan Maxwell was nominated for two Tony Awards® in 2010 for The Royal Family and for Lend Me A Tenor. She received the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress for The Royal Family.Other Broadway: Coram Boy (Tony, Drama Desk noms), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Drama Desk Award, Tony nom.), Sixteen Wounded (Drama Desk nom.), A Doll's House, The Sound of Music, The Dinner Party, Dancing at Lughnasa, City of Angels.
Off-Broadway: Victory, Scenes From an Execution (Drama Desk nom.) and Camille (all with Potomac Theatre Project/NYC), Wings (Second Stage), My Old Lady (Lortel Award, Drama Desk nom.).
TV: Law & Order, Gossip Girl.
Jan Maxwell Awards and Nominations
Drama Desk Awards - 2015 - Outstanding Actress in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, The City of Conversation | ||
Drama League Awards - 2015 - Distinguished Performance Award | ||
Jan Maxwell, The City of Conversation | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2015 - Outstanding Actress in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, The City of Conversation | ||
The Lortels - 2015 - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, The City of Conversation | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2014 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, The Castle | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2012 - Outstanding Actress in a Musical | ||
Jan Maxwell, Follies | ||
Drama League Awards - 2012 - Distinguished Performance Award | ||
Jan Maxwell, Follies | ||
Helen Hayes Awards - 2012 - Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | ||
Jan MaxwellFollies | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2012 - Outstanding Actress in a Musical | ||
Jan Maxwell, Follies | ||
Tony Awards - 2012 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | ||
Jan Maxwell, Follies | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Actress in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, Lend Me A Tenor | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play ![]() |
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Jan Maxwell, Lend Me A Tenor | ||
Tony Awards - 2010 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor | ||
Tony Awards - 2010 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2009 - Outstanding Actress in a Play ![]() |
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Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2009 - Outstanding Actress in a Play | ||
Jan MaxwellScenes From an Execution | ||
IT Awards - 2009 - Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role | ||
Jan MaxwellScenes from an Execution | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2007 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, Coram Boy | ||
Tony Awards - 2007 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, Coram Boy | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2006 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, Entertaining Mr. Sloane | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2005 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical ![]() |
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Jan Maxwell, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2005 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | ||
Jan Maxwell, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | ||
Tony Awards - 2005 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | ||
Jan Maxwell, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2004 - Outstanding Featured Actress - Play ![]() |
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Jan Maxwell, Sixteen Wounded | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2004 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | ||
Jan Maxwell, Sixteen Wounded | ||
The Lortels - 2003 - Outstanding Featured Actress | ||
Jan Maxwell, My Old Lady | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 2002 - Outstanding Featured Actress - Play ![]() |
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Jan Maxwell, My Old Lady | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1998 - Best Featured Actress - Musical | ||
Jan Maxwell, The Sound of Music | ||
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1997 - Best Featured Actress - Play | ||
Jan MaxwellA Doll's House |
Jan Maxwell News

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 4, 2022
On Sunday, March 20, 2022, Encompass New Opera Theatre, The Board of Trustees and The Encompass Honorary Gala Chairs, Sheldon Harnick and Maury Yeston will pay tribute to Legendary Theatrical Icon and Tony Award-winning luminaries, CHITA RIVERA and DANNY BURSTEIN, with a star-studded musical salute.

by Nicole Rosky - Dec 8, 2021
Here they come, those beautiful girls! A film version of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies is 'in active development' with Heyday Films.

by Ben Rimalower - Jul 12, 2021
In this episode, Ben and Daniel discuss the results of Roses and Daffodils: The Essential Follies Playlist. For this project, listeners voted weekly for their favorite versions of the Follies female solos, and 'Friends of the Pod' appeared with Ben and Daniel on 'Next Year, Some Year' to weigh in on the deeper cuts.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 28, 2021
Today's Theater Stories features the Lyric Theatre! Learn about the history of the Lyric Theatre, and the shows to have graced its stage including Jesus Christ Superstar, The Pirate Queen, Young Frankenstein, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and more.

by A.A. Cristi - Feb 11, 2021
Jan Maxwell, a five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award winner, was last seen on stage in City of Conversation at Lincoln Center, for which she wBas nominated for 2015 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and Scenes From an Execution in the Potomac Theatre Project revival at Atlantic Theater's Stage II.

by Stage Tube - Nov 30, 2020
Broadway stars are uniting yet again to sing in separation- this time to Follies. Watch below as Ali Ewoldt (Young Sally), Shoba Narayan (Young Phyllis), Zach Piser (Young Buddy), and Nic Rouleau (Young Ben) sing 'You're Gonna Love Tomorrow.'

by BroadwayWorld TV - Nov 12, 2020
Today we rewind to the 2011 revival of Follies, which opened at the Marquis Theatre and played for 152 performances.

by Nicole Rosky - Aug 3, 2020
Today (August 3) in live streaming: Cheyenne Jackson sings with Seth Rudetsky, The Muny is back with Summer Variety Hour, and so much more!

by Nicole Rosky - Jul 13, 2020
Today (July 13) in live streaming: Richard II continues, Audra McDonald sings with Seth Rudetsky, and so much more!

by BroadwayWorld TV - Jul 11, 2020
Today we flashback to 2011, when the second Broadway revival of Follies arrived at the Marquis Theatre, where it played for 152 performances.
Jan Maxwell Videos

by Stage Tube - Nov 30, 2020
Broadway stars are uniting yet again to sing in separation- this time to Follies. Watch below as Ali Ewoldt (Young Sally), Shoba Narayan (Young Phyllis), Zach Piser (Young Buddy), and Nic Rouleau (Young Ben) sing 'You're Gonna Love Tomorrow.'

by BroadwayWorld TV - Nov 12, 2020
Today we rewind to the 2011 revival of Follies, which opened at the Marquis Theatre and played for 152 performances.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Jul 11, 2020
Today we flashback to 2011, when the second Broadway revival of Follies arrived at the Marquis Theatre, where it played for 152 performances.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Apr 17, 2020
BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge says, 'This episode of Broadway Rewind features a heart, a hustler and a hoofer.' We give you a sneak peek at the Broadway musical 'The Drowsy Chaperone', which welcomed back to Broadway, Tony Award winner Sutton Foster and introduced us all to Bob Martin as Man in Chair. We also met the cast of Mark St. Germain's play, 'The God Committee', but the episode starts at the opening night of Roundabout's production of Joe Orton's comedy 'Entertaining Mr. Sloane' which featured a stellar cast including Chris Carmack, Alex Baldwin and the late great Jan Maxwell, whom Richard Ridge says, 'was one of the greatest actresses of her generation'.

by A.A. Cristi - Feb 11, 2019
Jan Maxwell, a five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award winner, was last seen on stage in City of Conversation at Lincoln Center, for which she wBas nominated for 2015 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and Scenes From an Execution in the Potomac Theatre Project revival at Atlantic Theater's Stage II.

by Julie Musbach - Feb 13, 2018
This weekend Broadway said goodbye to one of its most beloved stars Jan Maxwell. A paragon of the industry, she passed away on Sunday, February 11 at age 61. HMS Media has shared an extended clip of one of Maxwell's final performances as Phyllis in FOLLIES. Watch below to see the iconic songstress in action.

by BroadwayWorld TV - Feb 12, 2018
As BroadwayWorld sadly reported yesterday, Broadway star Jan Maxwellhas passed away at 61 years of age after a battle with cancer. The star is survived by her husband, actor/playwright Robert Emmet Lunney, and their son William Maxwell-Lunney.

by Alan Henry - Feb 12, 2018
The Broadway community took to social media to share memories and condolences. See some of the tributes to Maxwell below.
by Stage Tube - Mar 1, 2015
Before appearing in THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE! on NBC in 2013, Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti made her Broadway debut in the same show in 1998. But that time, an 18-year-old Benanti was the understudy to Maria rather than Elsa Schrader. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a throwback clip of the young Broadway star beautifully performing the title song, 'The Sound of Music.'
by BroadwayWorld TV - May 10, 2014
Nominations for the 2014 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced last month at 54 Below, and just yesterday, the honorees appeared at the 2014 Drama Desk Nominees Reception. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there and caught interviews with some of the featured actors nominated in the Play categories, including Michael C. Hall, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Brian J. Smith, Betty Buckley, Jan Maxwell, Toni Collette, and more!