Jane Adams has performed theatre at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. The plays include "Love Diatribe", "The Nice and the Nasty", and "Greetings From Elsewhere Cabaret". She also performed in "Careless Love" at the Empty Space Theatre, "Candide/Len Jenkin" at the Pioneer Square Theatre", "Talking With" at the Group Theatre and "Camino Real" at the Julliard School. She won a Tony Award for best performance by an actress in a play for the Broadway play, "An Inspector Calls". She also won the Outer Critics Circle Award for best featured actress in a play in the Broadway play, "I Hate Hamlet".
Earned a degree in drama from Juilliard in 1989. Dated Steve Martin around the time Father of the Bride Part II was being filmed. Won Broadway's 1994 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for "An Inspector Calls." On April 5, 2006, Adams quit the Old Vic production of Arthur Miller's play "Resurrection Blues" in London after playing the Wendseday matinée. She had been part of the cast featuring American movie actors assembled by director Robert Altman. She was replaced by her understudy for subsequent performances. No explanation was given for her departure from the production. The play, which had received bad reviews from the English press, had been scheduled to close a week early in mid-April due to poor ticket sales.