Joan's stage career began in the late fifties, when she played a few off-Broadway roles before switching to comedy. Much later, Joan Rivers wrote, and starred in, a Broadway play called Fun City , in 1972. In 1988, Joan returned to the stage once again and replaced Linda Lavin in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound . After another long absence, Joan appeared in a one woman show on Broadway in 1994. And according to David Bianculli in this New York Daily News article, Joan Rivers is back on broadway again.
Rivers plans to star in Daisy , a bittersweet comedy about a woman coming to terms with aging.
Of course Joan Rivers has been writing since she began her working career. Joan started working as a publicist for a department store. After a failed marriage, and a brief attempt at dramatic acting, Joan started writing comedy material for Candid Camera , and for Phyllis Diller and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Joan has written newspaper columns, comedic commentaries, sitcom episodes, screen plays, and several amusing books about her personal life experiences. Her wit is always as sharp as her tongue.