Emmy Award winner Holland Taylor, starring in “Ann” at the Kennedy Center, will be familiar to Washingtonians for her roles in many movies, “Romancing The Stone,” “Legally Blond,” and “Baby Mama” among them, and for her numerous appearances in television series: “The Practice,” and “Two and a Half Men,” to name just two. In the spring of 2007, Taylor started researching and writing a one-woman play about Ann Richards, the charismatic governor of Texas. “It was not a career move or a decision to write a play,” Taylor explained.

“It came about because I wanted to express what I felt about Ann Richards. She was such an important American figure and she meant a lot to me, which I only found out after she died. So this is really a personal quest.”