Mary Beth Evans Library

The Breakfast Club CBS Soaps In Depth, February 14, 2011 These days, DAYS OF OUR LIVES’ Steve and Kayla may be separated by a continent (she’s in Salem, while he’s in Africa) – not to mention a network – but their portrayers, Stephen Nichols (now Tucker, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) and Mary Beth Evans [...]

DAYS GONE BY Soap Opera Digest, April 21, 2009 By Stephanie Sloane February 17 marked the last day Steve and Kayla appeared in Salem.  Actors Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans, who returned to the show in 2006, were notified of their characters’ departures by Executive Producer Ken Corday, who also told them that they [...]

We Can Hurt Each Other By Michael Fairman TV Soap Magazine, December 26, 2007 Mary Beth Evans and Stephen Nichols have been friends for over two decades and they say the key is sometimes brutal honesty. Aside from working together for so long, the two of you have become close friends away from Days of [...]

Stars Spread Christmas Cheer TV Soap, December 11, 2006 By Robert Waldron Days Of Our Lives’ Mary Beth Evans and Stephen Nichols share their plans for the holiday season What is your favorite on-screen Christmas holiday memory? Evans:  “When Stephen played Santa was cute.” Nichols: “I always like playing Patchy Claus.  I play Santa Claus [...]

Reunited and It Feels So Good Soap Opera Weekly, October 17, 2006 By Janet Di Lauro During their 1980s run as Days Of Our Lives’ Steve and Kayla, Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans forged a friendship that lasted through all those years they weren’t in Salem.  Now, 20 years later, they’re back at their [...]

Performers of the Week Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans Soap Opera Digest, July 25, 2006 (Steve and Kayla, DAYS) Nearly 16 years have passed since Nichols and Evans appeared together as Steve and Kayla, but even if you didn’t watch the pair ascend to supercouple status in the ‘80s, their first scenes at the [...]

HAPPY DAYS Soap Opera Digest, May 9, 2006 FOR NICHOLS… “I think Patch’s shoes – I mean boots – will be very comfortable,” smiles Stephen Nichols, who is set to step back into them when he returns to the DAYS set next week to tape his first episodes since his departure in 1990. The return [...]

Supercouple Memory Lane….  With Stephen Nichols (ex-Steve) and Mary Beth Evans (ex-Kayla) The Ultimate Days of Our Lives Fan Guide, Spring 2003 From 1986-90, Kayla Brady and Steve “Patch” Johnson ran the supercouple gamut, from murderers and miracles to mysterious past-life Civil War soul mates, while their portrayers, Mary Beth Evans and Stephen Nichols, became [...]

 In Their Element  By Kristin Gallagher Soap Opera Digest, March 30, 1999 Long before a gunshot sparked romance for General Hospital’s now estranged lovers, Stefan and Katherine, Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans were making history as Days Of Our Lives supercouple Patch and Kayla. Here, the closely connected actors reminisce about everything from DAYS [...]

The Backstage Rage! LABOR OF LOVE Soap Opera Digest, May 6, 1997 Mary Beth Evans (Katherine) and Stephen Nichols (Stefan) recently took to the stage for a benefit performance of Love Letters.  The performance raised money for a cause dear to both actors:  The Aliso Academy for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a Montessori  [...]