Judith Ivey To Repeat Her Acclaimed Turn In 'GLASS MENAGERIE' For Roundabout Theatre Company Off-Broadway

Variety is reporting that Two-time Tony winner Judith Ivey will reprise her much-praised performance in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" next spring Off-Broadway.

The Roundabout Theater Company will present the recent Long Wharf Theater production of "Menagerie" at its Off Broadway venue, the Laura Pels Theater. Gordon Edelstein, the Artistic Director of the Long Wharf in New Haven, Conn. will repeat this duties for the Roundabout mounting.

The acclaimed Long Wharf staging, which also featured Josh Charles, Patch Darragh and Keira Keeley, ended its run earlier this month.

The is described in press notes as "Laura, a timid girl living in a world of delicate cut glass animals, has her quiet life shattered when her mother, Amanda, encourages a meeting with a gentleman caller."

Roundabout Theatre Company is one of the country's leading not-for-profit theatres. The company contributes invaluably to New York's cultural life by staging the highest quality revivals of classic plays and musicals as well as new plays by established writers. Roundabout consistently partners great artists with great works to bring a fresh and exciting interpretation that makes each production relevant and important to today's audiences.

Roundabout Theatre Company currently produces at three permanent homes each of which is designed specifically to enhance the needs of the Roundabout's mission. Off-Broadway, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses theLaura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design is perfectly suited to showcasing intimate plays and musicals. The grandeur of its Broadway home on 42nd Street, American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout's Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. Together these three distinctive venues serve to enhance the work on each of its stages.

American Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company. Roundabout productions are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts; and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. American Express is the 2008-2009 season sponsor of theRoundabout Theatre Company.

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2008-2009 season included Lisa Loomer's Distracted featuring Cynthia Nixon, directed by Mark Brokaw; Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist, starring Matthew Broderick, directed by David Grindley; Samuel Beckett'sWaiting for Godot, starring (in order of speaking) Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin, John Goodman, John Glover, directed by Anthony Page. Roundabout's sold out production ofThe 39 Steps made its second Broadway transfer to the Helen Hayes Theatre on January 21, 2009.

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2009-2010 season includes Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, starring Sienna Miller, directed by Mark Brokaw; Michael Stewart, Lee AdamsandCharles Strouse's Bye Bye Birdie, directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom;Mark Saltzman, Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin's The Tin Pan Alley Rag, directed by Stafford Arima; Noël Coward's Present Laughter starring Victor Garber, directed byNicholas Martin. For more information, visit www.roundabouttheatre.org.

 

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