Eleanor: Her Secret Journey

Renowned actress Jean Stapleton stars as Eleanor Roosevelt in Rhonda Lerman’s one-woman play, directed by John Tillinger. From her innocuous beginnings as a socialite wife and mother of five, the audience listens as the first lady describes her shocking tour of the brutal battlefields of World War I. Eleanor: Her Secret Journey also reveals her yearning for the love that her husband chose to share instead with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer; and eventually her transformation into the activist, feminist, and idealist that most Americans now recognize.