 In 2019, more than thirty years since her performance in "The Curse of the Aching Heart", Dunaway planned to return to Broadway with an updated version of Matthew Lombardo's one-woman play "Tea at Five", which was first staged at Hartford Stage in 2002.She would portray Katharine Hepburn being particularly drawn to the complexities of the play and the character, saying, "Hepburn was a brilliant actress.Her aura on screen was unique.