Josh Lucas to Play the Gentleman Caller in Broadway's Glass Menagerie
Lucas received a Teen Choice Award with Reese Witherspoon for the kiss they shared in the successful 2002 romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama. His other film credits include Alive, The Definite Maybe, Restless, You Can Count on Me, American Psycho, The Weight of Water, The Deep End, Session 9, A Beautiful Mind, Hulk, Secondhand Lions, Wonderland and Undertow. He has three films scheduled to come out this year: An Unfinished Life, Stealth and Glory Road. Lucas' best known stage work was in the 1998 Manhattan Theatre Club production of Corpus Christi, in which he played Judas.
The Glass Menagerie tells the story of a St. Louis family struggling to cope with the harsh realities of the Great Depression and the bitter memories that haunt them. Revealed in flashback, the play follows the lives of shoe factory worker Tom Roberts, torn between his role as the family breadwinner and the desire to lead a life of his own, his abrasive mother Amanda Lange, once a Southern socialite, now trying to maintain her dignity amidst the gloom of the tenement, and Tom's frail sister Laura Paulson, who has retreated to an imaginary world caring for her collection of glass animals. As tensions mount and tempers flare, the prospect of a husband for Laura becomes their final chance for stability and escape. But the arrival of this gentleman caller Lucas could also deal a powerful blow that shatters their tenuous dreams.
The Glass Menagerie, directed by David Leveaux, is scheduled to open at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 15.