Mary Beth Evans: Wedding Belle

The daytime drama superstar tries her hand at comedy in a Los Angeles production of Barbra’s Wedding.

By: Brian Scott Lipton · Feb 20, 2010  · Los Angeles

Wilson Green and Mary Beth Evans
in Barbra’s Wedding
(© Jennifer Blevins)

For 25 years, Mary Beth Evans’ name has been synonymous with the words “daytime drama” thanks to her roles as Kayla Brady Johnson on NBC’s Days of Our Lives, Katherine Bell on ABC’s General Hospital and Port Charles, and Sierra Montgomery on ABC’s As The World Turns. Now, she’s trying her hand at comedy in a Los Angeles production of Daniel Stern’s play Barbra’s Wedding at the Blank Theatre.

“This is so much fun after all my years on daytime. In my heart, and in real life, I think I am a funny person,” says Evans. “I left Days again last February, and then I did some episodic television. But I really wanted to do a play. Television is so fast-moving, and I wanted to really work on a piece and be able to try different things. In daytime, you memorize your lines, show up, and then work on instinct. The one funny thing is that I used to memorize pages of scripts every day, and for some reason, it took me 22 days to memorize this script.”

Always an inspiration, Mary Beth talks about her current play, her family, her fans, her love of daytime TV, Y&R, and her pie business!  Click HERE to read the complete article: