Kathy Bates: Devoted to McNally

Kathy Bates is internationally acclaimed as the star of films and TV shows, but she's also made quite a career for herself on stage.

Her earliest triumphs happened on the New York stage in plays like Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother (Sissy Spacek got to play Bates' role in the movie version) and Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (in which Bates appeared onstage completely nude).

Now she's reteaming with McNally, the acclaimed gay playwright behind Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, for the world premiere of his Unusual Acts of Devotion.

What Devotion is actually about, however, remains something of a mystery.

The show debuts Oct. 26 through Nov. 25 at the Philadelphia Theatre Company.