Kathleen Turner and David Harbour to Star in Reading of One-Act Play That Became The Glass Menagerie

Kathleen Turner and David Harbour will play Amanda and Tom in the world premiere reading of The Pretty Trap, a one-act play by Tennessee Williams that the author later revised, expanded, and retitled as The Glass Menagerie. The reading will be presented as part of the Food for Thought series at the Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South) on Tuesday, October 25; Austin Pendleton will direct.

The gala, black-tie event will be hosted by journalist Rex Reed, who will provide narration and a historical perspective on Williams. It will also include a reading of Interior Panic, a one-act forerunner of Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire that has never been performed in New York.

“These are complete, early, one-act versions of the plays,” says Susan Charlotte, producer and founding artistic director of Food for Thought. “They were discovered in the archives in New Orleans by a man named Robert Bray. The Pretty Trap is a much lighter version of The Glass Menagerie; Laura and the Gentleman Caller actually go out on a date!”

Turner and Harbour both received Tony Award nominations for their performances in the recent revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Turner’s other Broadway credits include The Graduate, Indiscretions, and Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Harbour was previously seen on Broadway in The Invention of Love and The Rainmaker.

For further information, visit the website www.foodforthoughtproductions.com, or call 212-362-2560 or 646-366-9340.