Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Cherry Jones will give a talk at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22, about her role as Amanda in the highly acclaimed Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie.” The event will be in the Tennessee Williams Center; admission is free and open to the public.
Jones will also discuss her notable performance in “Night of the Iguana.”
Nominated for a Tony for her role as Amanda, Jones received praise from New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley: “Ms. Jones, a two-time Tony winner, gave a wonderful performance in Cambridge. What she’s doing now [on Broadway], though, is one for the ages, an Amanda that may someday be spoken of with the awe that surrounds Laurette Taylor’s creation of the part nearly 70 years ago.”
Jones, a native of Paris, Tenn., is a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University and a founding member of the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard. Her work on Broadway includes “Doubt” (Tony Award), “The Heiress” (Tony Award), “A Moon for the Misbegotten “(Tony nomination), “The Glass Menagerie” (Tony nomination), “Faith Healer,” “Angels in America” and “Our Country’s Good” (Tony nomination).
She won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of President Allison Taylor on “24.” Film credits include “Ocean’s Twelve,” “Cradle Will Rock,” “The Horse Whisperer,” “The Perfect Storm,” “Erin Brockovich,” “Signs,” “The Village” and the upcoming film “Knight of Cups.”
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