Turner turns theatre director

Actress Kathleen Turner has turned theatre director and is thrilling audiences at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts with her stage-directing debut.

The 'Romancing The Stone' star is midway through a run of Beth Henley play Crimes Of The Heart at the festival.

And Turner admits her directorial style owes a lot to filmmakers John Huston and Francis Ford Coppola, who directed her in the movies Prizzi's Honor and Peggy Sue Got Married respectively.

The 53-year-old says: "I learned a lot from them - Huston and Coppola."