February 29, 2020. Written and directed by Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award-winner Winnie Holzman (Wicked, “My So-Called Life”), CHOICE is a timely and topical story of what happens when a respected journalist finds herself at the epicenter of a controversial social phenomenon. As she re-examines her past and discovers a new way of looking at the future, her family, her closest friendship, and her entire belief system will never be the same. CHOICE explores a woman’s right to choose in decidedly unexpected ways.

With Tony Shalhoub.

Choice at The Wallis.

June 22, 2019. While in Natchez shooting their film ‘Breaking News in Yuba County’, Tate Taylor organized the cast of the film and directed a special benefit for the NLT. In reprise of their 1990 staging of the same production, Allison and Matthew Modine read scenes from the Cristofer play ‘Breaking Up’ in order to benefit the theater.

June 1, 2011. One performance only. Maggie Gyllenhaal played the titled role. The cast featured Mireille Enos, Bill Camp, David Morse and Liev Schreiber. Bob Balaban directed.

August 15 - 26, 2007. Center for Theatre & Dance of Williams College, 1000 Main Street Williamstown, MA.

Play by Lillian Hellman, set in a summer resort on the Gulf of Mexico in 1949 which follows seven friends confronting middle age, assessing the choices they have made and the lives they have led, while clinging to the hope that they will once more be at peace. Allison played Constance Tuckerman

Directed by David Jones. With John Benjamin Hickey and Mamie Gummer

New York Times Review August 22, 2007: "Ms. Janney, who did memorable work on Broadway (“Present Laughter,” “A View From the Bridge”) before achieving television stardom on “The West Wing,” hasn’t lost her stage chops. The stoical Constance is the least showy of the female parts. But Ms. Janney finds a tremulous, awkward hopefulness within the character’s seeming stolidity."

June 17 to July 11, 1999 . New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater - Delacorte Theatre - Central Park, New York, NY

Play by Shakespeare; Allison played Katherina.

Directed by Mel Shapiro

With Jay Sanders and Mario Cantone

Playbill Feature "A Killer Shrew: There's No Taming Allison Janney" - June 30, 1999: "No one can put a stamp on the role of Kate quite like a formidable six footer, which [Janney] is. Combine sinew that reflects years of practice at dance and figure skating, and the lung-power of a foghorn, and you have a Kate who dropkicks Petruchio and most of the supporting cast like Emma Peel, and vents her rage at a decibel level to silence any cricket or passing bird that might dare interrupt her. This Kate could toss the Kate of Meryl Streep, who played the part at the Delacorte in 1978, into nearby Turtle Pond with the back of her hand, and send the 1990 Kate of Tracey Ullman scurrying for shelter within Belvedere Castle."

The above-referenced Playbill interview includes a longer feature on Allison which goes in depth about her career at the time, which was just poised to take off with the upcoming premiere of "The West Wing" that fall (1999). In the feature, which is a must-read, also offers interesting descriptions of Allison, her humor & demeanor, her dressing room at the Delacorte, and her thoughts on fame/having obtained her success a bit later into her thirties. Read below: