Playing a Hollywood Legend like Katharine Hepburn would be a tough proposition for most actresses. But for Kate Mulgrew, who is best known for her seven-year run as Captain Janeway on TV's "Star Trek: Voyager," this task is made even more difficult in Matthew Lombardo's one-woman play Tea at Five. That's because Mulgrew must portray the indomitable Hepburn both in her early diva life and also in her twilight years. Fortunately, Mulgrew is up to the task - depicting the strident, 31-year old star, still defiant even though she's been dubbed "box office poison," and later the 76-year old, aging actress suffering from Parkinson's and reflecting on a life filled with loss. Mulgrew captures the emotional highs and lows of the inimitable, gravelly-voiced icon and won raves for her performance during the play's previous engagements off-Broadway and at the American Repertory Theatre's Loeb Drama Center. 

Once practically written off as box office poison, Katharine Hepburn became one of Hollywood's immortals. Tea at Five, a one-woman show starring Kate Mulgrew, plumbs the character of the four-time Oscar winner, digging past her celluloid persona and into her intimate feelings on cinema, life, and Spencer Tracy. Best known for her seven-year turn as Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, Mulgrew comes to embody the legend by fine stagecraft and by raising and lowering her voice along the famous Hepburn register.  -- Maressa Brown