Say Sally Struthers, and everybody knows who she is.
Or who she played: Gloria Bunker Stivic on the historic Norman Lear sitcom. “All in the Family” and next-door neighbor Babette Dell on “The Gilmore Girls.”
Those performances, 55 and 25 years in the past, represent a mere fraction of Struthers’ work during almost 60 nonstop years as an actress.
Audiences across the U.S. know Sally Struthers is a theatrical dynamo. Each year, she shows up — again — in Maine, Kansas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or wherever in a new show.
Next week, she shows up at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse in prolific playwright Joe DiPietro’s comic send-up of noir detective movies, “An Old-Fashioned Family Murder.”
You can bet at age 78 she’s ready for the play after that and the play after that. Or maybe