'Suddenly, Last Summer' to open off-Broadway

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Suddenly, Last Summer to open off-Broadway
 Outtraveler Staff
          
          Aug 22, 2006
          
        
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       Blythe Danner and
            Carla Gugino will star in Tennesee Williams's Suddenly,
                Last Summer in an off-Broadway       production
            directed by Mark Brokaw (The Dying       Gaul) and
            presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company. The
                New York Times reports that previews will begin
            October 20, with the       show opening November 15 at
            the Roundabout's Harold and Miriam       Steinberg Center
            for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre.     

        
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