Tony Winner Judith Ivey to Star in Roundabout's Off-Broadway Revival of The Glass Menagerie

Two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey, Keira Keeley and Patch Darragh will star in Roundabout Theatre Company’s upcoming off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ famed play The Glass Menagerie, the company has announced. The three will reprise their roles in the Long Wharf Theatre Company production of the famed drama, directed by Long Wharf’s Gordon Edelstein. The show begins previews on March 5, 2010, with opening set for March 24 at the Laura Pels Theatre. Additional casting for the limited engagement will be announced at a later date.

A Williams’ classic, The Glass Menagerie opens with Tom Wingfield (Darragh) in a hotel room, trying to forge his past into art. Tom’s space is soon overtaken by the memories of the cramped apartment he once shared with his mother Amanda (Ivey) and beloved sister Laura (Keeley). The drama recalls the family’s unrequited dreams and the night a visit from a man known as the Gentleman Caller changed their lives forever.

Williams’ breakout work, The Glass Menagerie debuted in Chicago in 1944 before transferring to New York the following year. The original, starring Laurette Taylor in an iconic turn, went on to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

Roundabout’s transfer production of the semi-autobiographical play premiered May 20, 2009, at Long Wharf in New Haven, CT, under Artistic Director Edelstein’s direction. The show is produced in association with Long Wharf.

Ivey has appeared on Broadway in Steaming, Hurlyburly, Precious Sons, Blithe Spirit, Voices in the Dark and Follies, winning Tony Awards for the former two credits. On film, the actress has appeared in The Devil’s Advocate, Washington Square, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Love Hurts, Compromising Positions, What Alice Found and Flags of our Fathers. She memorably starred on television in the series Designing Women, among others.

Keeley has appeared on the New York stage in The Public’s Green Girl and Lincoln Center’s New York Philharmonic presentation of Romeo and Juliet, as well as Local Story, Departures and The Young Left. Regionally, she has been seen in The Crucible and The Madwoman of Chaillot at the Actors’ Theater of Louisville.

On Broadway, Darragh has appeared in Our Town. Off-Broadway credits include Roundabout’s Crimes of the Heart, All That I Will Ever Be, The Ruby Sunrise, Where We’re Born, Safe, Spin and The Secret Agenda of Trees. On television, he has starred on Cupid, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Damages and Guiding Light.

Edelstein, Artistic Director of Long Wharf since 2002, returns to Roundabout after directing playwright Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara in 2001. The helmer’s credits include the recent world premiere of Coming Home, as well as BFE, The Day the Bronx Died, A Dance Lesson, The Times, A New War, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Mourning Becomes Electra.

The design team will include two-time Tony Award winner Michael Yeargan (Sets), two-time Tony Award winner Martin Pakledinaz (Costumes), two-time Tony Award winner Jennifer Tipton (Lights) and David Budries (Sound).