Richard Thomas Lead WCP's Tennessee Williams Centennial Event

A special performance by acclaimed actor Richard Thomas in A Distant Country Called Youth, based on a collection of lively and evocative letters written by a young Tennessee Williams. Part of the enhanced programming surrounding The Playhouse's production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, August 23 - September 10.

Through a series of letters - earnest, hilarious, anguished, touching - the boy Thomas Lanier Williams moves through family travails and professional rejection to his first success, and concludes with the triumphal Broadway opening of The Glass Menagerie. The theatrical event has played across America, in England and Ireland.

Adapted and Directed by Steve Lawson
From The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams,
Vol. 1, 1920 - 1945
Edited by Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler

Richard Thomas appeared in Westport Country Playhouse's Critic's Choice and Whose Life Is It Anyway? Most recently, he was in a reading of A. R. Gurney's The Golden Age on The Playhouse stage. Thomas captured the public's heart starring in the Emmy Award-winning series, "The Waltons." He has continued to star in series, films, plays and over 50 movies for television. On stage, he has been called "one of the leading classical actors of his generation," Newsday.

A Q&A with Richard Thomas and Steve Lawson, moderated by Anne Keefe, Playhouse artistic advisor, will follow the performance.

All Tickets $15

 

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