Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley and Tony nominee Penny Fuller will star in an upcoming reading of Charles Leipart's Wharton/Williams, a new play based on the short stories of novelist Edith Wharton and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams.
Wharton/Williams is based on the stories Roman Fever by Wharton and Happy August the Tenth by Williams. Each story offers a contrasting portrait of female friendship.
The reading will be directed by Drama Desk winner Michael Wilson and will be held at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Studio at Playwrights Horizons December 5 at 3 PM.
