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Two-time Tony winner Judith Ivey takes on Amanda Wingfield, American drama’s most memorable matriarch.

The original setting for The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ modern classic which debuted on Broadway in 1945, is a Depression-era tenement apartment in St. Louis. Tom, who narrates the memory play, shares his shabby coffin-like abode with his mother Amanda and sister Laura. But director Gordon Edelstein’s innovative production — which begins performances March 5 and officially opens March 24 at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre — unfolds instead in a dingy hotel room in New Orleans. There, Tom, a stand-in for a young Tennessee Williams, wrestles with the ghosts of his past via his own troubled memories.
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Victor Garber transforms his genial self into the raffish, raging egomaniac Garry Essendine for
Present Laughter.

Anyone who knows actor Victor Garber would not characterize him as an immense—but ultimately lovable—narcissist like Garry Essendine, the aging matinee idol at the vortex of Noël Coward’s Present Laughter. Over a leisurely breakfast, Garber never fails to mention the other actors in Roundabout’s 2010 revival of the play on Broadway, almost all of whom performed in the acclaimed production at Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company in 2007. Of Present Laughter’s director, Nicholas Martin, Garber’s voice grows louder and his praise becomes lavish. “He’s more fun than anyone I know,” he says, most sincerely. Garber’s enthusiasm makes you wish you were sitting in the rehearsal room—or standing on line at the theatre, a pair of center-orchestra seats in hand. Watch the video on youtube.
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