Amanda Plummer to Star in Summer and Smoke in CT

According to the Hartford Courant, Tony Award-winner Amanda Plummer will make her theatrical return in Hartford Stage's production of Tennessee Williams' classic drama Summer and Smoke.  It will run from August 31st through October 1st.

She will play Alma Winemiller, "an uptight minister's daughter, (who) secretly pines for the boy next door. Unfortunately, the boy next door is a young doctor whose shocking lifestyle has caused a scandal throughout Glorious Hill, Mississippi. Will Alma's frigid reserve melt in the smoke and heat of her newly awakened desire?," as the show is described in Hartford Stage notes.

The production will be directed by Michael Wilson; it will be performed as the ninth annual entry in the company's 10-year-long Tennessee Williams Marathon.  Plummer will be joined by Jennifer Harmon, Terry Beaver, Nafe Katter, Joanna Morrison, Curtis Billings, Stephanie Beatriz, Bill Kux, Mateo Gomez, Marta Reiman, Elizabeth Capinera and John Ort (the role of John Buchanan Jr. has yet to be cast).

A co-production with New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, Summer and Smoke will drift to that theatre for a run in January and February of 2007.  The role of Alma will be recast, as Plummer will be performing in Shakespeare with My Father in Montreal (the actress is the daughter of Christopher Plummer and Tammy Grimes).

Plummer won a Tony Award for her performance in Agnes of God, and has also been seen on Broadway in You Never Can Tell, The Glass Menagerie, and A Taste of Honey.  Her previous Hartford Stage appearances include Eight by Tenn, A Member of the Wedding and The Wake of Jamey Foster.  She is a three-time Emmy Award-winner for her work in "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," "The Outer Limits" and "Miss Rose White," while film credits include 8 1/2 Women, Pulp Fiction, and The Fisher King.

Visit www.hartfordstage.org for tickets and more information.