On Broadway she appeared in "Frankenstein" (1981), directed by Tom Moore, portrayed Desdemona in "Othello" (1982) opposite James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer and co-starred with John Lithgow in Christopher Durang's romantic screwball comedy "Beyond Therapy" (1982), directed by John Madden. (She played opposite Lithgow again in the Herbert Ross film "Footloose"). During the 1980s, she also performed in "Hedda Gabler", directed by Lloyd Richards at Yale Repertory Theatre, and in Harold Pinter's "A Kind of Alaska" (1984, Manhattan Theatre Club), Lanford Wilson's "Serenading Louie" (1984), and Janusz Glowacki's "Hunting Cockroaches" (1987, Manhattan Theater Club).