She’s in creative charge of Theresa Rebeck’s contemporary comedy “Bad Dates,” which opens at the Northlight Theatre on Wednesday night and features an actress named Beth Broderick.

She recorded two Grammy-winning celebrity-duet albums — “R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal)” in 2004 and “Turned to Blue” in 2006 ... as an actress, activist and commercial spokeswoman ...