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Although Gleason has had an active film and TV career, she is probably best known for her stage work.

Gleason made her Broadway debut in 1977 in I Love My Wife, for which she was honored with a Theatre World Award.

Additional Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Peter Nichols A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Nick & Nora, Into the Woods ( for which she won several awards including a Tony Award in the lead role of the Baker's Wife ), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and The Cartells.

In early 2002, she directed her first New York play.