The Glass Menagerie, starring Judith Ivey, to play at the Laura Pels Theatre

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Long Wharf Theatre presents Tennessee Williams� play The Glass Menagerie, directed by Gordon Edelstein with Patch Darragh, two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey and Keira Keeley.

The Glass Menagerie will play a limited engagement at the Laura Pels Theatre, opening on 24 Mar 2010, following previews from 5 Mar 2010. The design team will feature sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting by Jennifer Tipton (Lights) and sound by David Budries.

Additional casting will be announced shortly. In this fresh interpretation of Williams� haunting memory play, Tom Wingfield (Patch 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 (Judith Ivey), his beloved sister Laura (Keira Keeley) and unrequited dreams as fragile as Laura�s collection of tiny glass animals. There, Tom relives the Gentleman Caller�s visit � the night that changed his family forever.

This production of Williams� semi-autobiographical play premiered 20 May 2009 at the Long Wharf Theatre 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.' 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.

Roundabout Theatre Company�s 2009-2010 season includes Mark Saltzman, Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin�s The Tin Pan Alley Rag, directed by Stafford Arima; Patrick Marber�s After Miss Julie, starring Sienna Miller & Jonny Lee Miller, directed by Mark Brokaw; Michael Stewart, Lee Adams and Charles Strouse�s Bye Bye Birdie starring John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin & Nolan Gerard Funk, directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom; Carrie Fisher�s Wishful Drinking, directed by Tony Taccone; Theresa Rebeck�s The Understudy, directed by Scott Ellis; Adam Gwon�s Ordinary Days, directed by Marc Bruni and No�l Coward�s Present Laughter starring Victor Garber, directed by Nicholas Martin.