The Glass Menagerie announces full cast

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Long Wharf Theatre has announced the full company for Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie, directed by Gordon Edelstein with Patch Darragh (Tom Wingfield), two-time Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey (Amanda Wingfield), Keira Keeley (Laura Wingfield) and Michael Mosley (Jim O'Connor).

The Glass Menagerie opens at the Laura Pels Theatre on 24 Mar 2010, following previews from 5 Mar and will play a limited engagement through to 30 May 2010.

In this fresh interpretation of Williams' haunting memory play, 'Tom Wingfield' (Darragh) sits writing in a hotel room, trying to forge his past into art. Soon Tom's space is overtaken by the cramped apartment he once shared with his mother 'Amanda' (Ivey), his beloved sister 'Laura' (Keeley) and unrequited dreams as fragile as Laura's collection of tiny glass animals. There, 'Tom' relives the 'Gentleman Caller's' (Mosley) visit - the night that changed his family forever.

This production of Williams' semi-autobiographical play premiered 20 May 2009 at the Long Wharf Theatre (Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director) in New Haven, CT and was directed by Gordon Edelstein. The play originally premiered in Chicago in 1944, moving to New York the next year, where it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, featuring Laurette Taylor as 'Amanda' in one of the iconic performances in American theatre history. The Glass Menagerie was Williams' first successful play.

Gordon Edelstein returns to Roundabout Theatre Company having directed Martin McDonagh's 'A Skull in Connemara' at the Gramercy Theatre in 2001. Judith Ivey returns to Roundabout Theatre Company after performing the role of 'Sally Durant Plummer' in the 2001 production of 'Follies.' Patch Darragh returns to Roundabout having portrayed 'Doc Porter' in the 2008 production of 'Crimes of the Heart.'