Eve Ensler in New York and Paris but travels much of the year." A June 2010 article by Ensler in "The Guardian" stated that she was receiving treatment for uterine cancer. Ensler wrote about her experience with cancer in her memoir, "In The Body of the World". Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues" in 1996. First performed in the basement of the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, the play has been translated into 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. Celebrities who have starred in it include Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Idina Menzel, Glenn Close, Susan Sarandon, Marin Mazzie, Cyndi Lauper,
Glenn Close had first premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's novel of the same name. It centers on Joan Castleman (played by Close) who questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is set to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was announced in 2017 that Paramount wanted Close to play Norma Desmond in a remake of "Sunset Boulevard", though the film is still in early development. Close began to do television movies in the early 1980s beginning with "The Elephant Man" and in 1984,