The Glass Menagerie is coming to Broadway next season with Two-Time Academy Award Β Winner Β SALLY FIELDΒ Β and Two-time Tony Award Winner JOE MANTELLO, under direction by Tony-Award Winning Director Sam Gold.
[(Fun HomeΒ (the Public; Obie Award, LortelΒ and Drama Desk nominations);Β The FlickΒ (PlaywrightsΒ Horizons, Lortel Award nomination);Β Uncle VanyaΒ (Soho Rep, Drama Desk nomination)]Β .Β Mr.Β Gold first directed The Glass Menagerie at Toneelgroep Amsterdam (Ivo van Hove, Artistic Director, who recently won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play ) with an entirely Dutch-speaking cast.Β The production received rave reviews and massive international attention.Mr. Gold spoke enthusiastically about his experience, βThe experience I had doing this play in Amsterdam was life-changing, and the fact that weβve managed to put together this cast to do it on Broadway is the most perfect outcome I could have imagined.Β Like any sane person, Iβve been hoping for Sally Field to carve out some time to do a play again.Β When I saw her Mary Todd Lincoln, I started dreaming of her as Amanda Wingfield.Β As for Joe Mantello, seeing that original production ofΒ Angels in America, in which he starred, was a great source of inspiration for me at the time.Β Because Joe is such a wonderful director, he has had very little time to act.Β I’m incredibly lucky that he has agreed to come back to the stage to play Tom.β
The Glass Menagerie brought Tennesse Williams to the national forefront of the public eye with the first Broadway production of the play in 1945. Tennesse Williams is critically acclaimed for his Southern-setting plays. He drew the inspiration for his works based on his family experiences. When the Glass Menagerie first arrived on Broadway, it was a revolutionary spark for American theatre.Β Names of his other marvelous masterpieces include A Street Car Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Night of the Iguana.Β Tennesse Williams won four New York Drama Critics Circle Awards and two Pulitzer Prizes in his career of writing twenty-five full length plays, dozens of short plays and screenplays, sixty short stories, Β numerous novels, one novella, and over one hundred poems.Β His great works have been translated into about twenty-seven languages and productions of his great written work have been on the stage world-wide.Β The Glass MenagerieΒ will feature the complete design team from the Toneelgroep Amsterdam production:Β Andrew LiebermanΒ (Scenic Design),Β Woiceich DziedzicΒ (Costume Design),Β Adam SilvermanΒ (Lighting Design), andΒ Bray PoorΒ (Sound Design).
Sally Field who stars as Amanda Wingfield was first seen on Broadway in Edward AlbeeβsΒ The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia and previously played Amanda in the 2004 Kennedy Center production ofΒ The Glass Menagerie. Here, she received great accolades and it is no surprise that she is back to wow audiences again with her talent and the same role.Β Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award winner recently starred inΒ Hello, My Name is DorisΒ co-starring Max Greenfield which was written and directed by Michael Showalter.Β She also won the New York Film Critics award for best supporting actress and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics Choice Award, BAFTA and Academy Award for her role as Mary Todd in Steven Spielbergβs critically acclaimed film: Lincoln.
Ms. Field spoke about her new project and unique opportunity: Β βTo say this is a dream come trueΒ is an understatement. Working with the best of the best, from Sam Gold to Joe Mantello to Scott Rudin, on one of the greatest plays ever written is beyond thrilling.Β Right now I can barely breathe. Hopefully that’ll pass.β
Joe Mantello plays Tom WingfieldΒ and has four showsΒ currently running on Broadway: Blackbird,Β The Humans (Tony Award nomination),Β Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award),Β An Act of God Laugh Whore,Β Assassins(Tony Award)Β . He received Emmy and Criticsβ Choice Television Award nominations for his performance in HBOβs βThe Normal Heartβ (dir. Ryan Murphy).
Finn WittrockΒ (Jim OβConnor)Β can be seen in Adam McKayβs Oscar-nominated drama,Β The Big Short, alongside Christian Bale, Steve Carrell and Brad Pitt. The Big Short cast received nominations from the Screen Actors Guild and the Broadcast Film Critics Association for Best Ensemble. Wittrock currently stars inΒ The Submarine Kid, which he wrote with lifelong friend and director of the film, Eric Bilitch.Β The Submarine will star in Damien ChazelleβsΒ La La LandΒ alongside J.K. Simmons, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Wittrock also appeared Β in Season 5 of FXβs and Ryan Murphyβs critically-acclaimed, Emmy-nominated series, American Horror Story (Hotel)Β alongside Lady Gaga and Matt Bomer and Season 4,Β Freak Show,Β as βDandyβΒ for which he received an Emmy Award nomination, and alongside Aaron Eckhart in the sport dramaΒ My All American, written and directed by Angelo Pizzo. Wittrock is a graduate of Juilliard and is currently a member of The Mechanicals Theatre Group in L.A.
Madison FerrisΒ plays Laura Wingfield, with previous credits including Camillo inΒ The Winterβs Tale, Vera inΒ The Odd Couple: Female Version, and Cassie Cooper inΒ Rumors. Ferrisβ Dance performances include βBallet (New York)β performed at the Martha Graham Studio and βThe Show Must Go Onβ performed at the Joyce Theater (both choreographed by JΓ©rΓ΄me Bel). Madison is also a previous student of Larry Singer Studios.
PERFORMANCES BEGINΒ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017
AT BROADWAYβS GOLDEN THEATRE
OPENING NIGHT SET FORΒ THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2017
-Alexa Christina Politis (@risingstarxoxo)