Complex sentence: She often took breaks from movie roles to concentrate on stage acting, though in 1987, Allen appeared as Laura in the Paul Newman directed film version of the Tennessee Williams play "The Glass Menagerie" with John Malkovich and Joanne Woodward.
Split into simpler sentences: She often took breaks from movie roles to concentrate on stage acting. In 1987, Allen appeared as Laura in the Paul Newman directed version of the Tennessee Williams play "The Glass Menagerie" with John Malkovich and Joanne Woodward.