Photo Coverage: Suddenly Last Summer Opening Night

By: Walter McBride Nov. 16, 2006

The Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer, directed by Mark Brokaw, opened at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street) on Wednesday, November 15th. It will run through January 21st, 2007.

The cast of Suddenly Last Summer includes Becky Ann Baker (Mrs. Holly), Blythe Danner (Mrs. Venable) Carla Gugino (Catharine Holly), Gale Harold (Doctor Cukrowicz), Sandra Shipley (Sister Felicity), Karen Walsh (Miss Foxhill) and Wayne Wilcox (George Holly).

Tony- and Emmy Award winner Danner (Follies, TV's "Huff") "stars as the formidable Mrs. Venable, an aging widow distraught over the mysterious death of her son. When the young cousin traveling with him, played by Carla Gugino (After the Fall), begins raising scandalous allegations Mrs. Venable enlists the help of a young doctor, played by Gale Harold (TV's 'Queer as Folk,' Vanished), to preserve her son's reputation," state press notes.

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

Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.