She took "Anna Russell's Little Show" to Broadway in 1953 and also appeared on Broadway in "All by Myself" in 1960. In 1963, with Robert Paine Grose and Joan White, she founded Grow Productions, Inc., which presented "Lady Audley's Secret" at the New York World's Fair in 1964. She also played a leading role in Noël Coward's comedy "Blithe Spirit". Other stage shows included "Quality Street" in 1965 at the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Russell appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and in a number of plays and television episodes. She performed her concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall. In 1977, she played the Duchess of Crackenthorp in the Canadian Opera Company production of "Daughter of the Regiment", a role which she later recreated for Tulsa Opera in a production with Erie Mills and Giorgio Tozzi.