Abingdon Theatre Company is set to launch its 25th anniversary season with the New York premiere of The Gentleman Caller, a new play by Charm playwright Philip Dawkins. Set in 1944, the new play imagines a 鈥渟exy and fraught鈥� meeting between legendary playwrights William Inge and Tennessee Williams before their fame (the name itself being a nod to a character in Williams鈥� well-known play The Glass Menagerie).
Directed by Artistic Director Tony Speciale, the limited engagement will play the Cherry Lane Theatre May 5鈥�26.
鈥淭he struggle to create while not also destroying the self in the process is one that is, I feel, as vital today as it was in the smack-middle of the last century,鈥� says Dawkins. 鈥淭ennessee Williams and William Inge have both been such major influences not only to me but to so many others who I count as my mentors and theatre-heroes. As a Midwestern playwright myself, I take the responsibility of holding these powerful queer voices from the middle of America as a great and powerful honor.鈥�
Tickets are currently on sale to Abingdon subscribers only. Visit for more information.
Charm, inspired by the real-life story of trans icon Miss Gloria Allen, concluded a run at MCC Theater earlier this year.
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