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Huppert was in rehearsal for Ivo van Hove’s new production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie: the run was cut short after a week of performances, and a scheduled transfer to London’s Barbican in June remains in doubt.

“For a journalist unwilling to interview Tennessee Williams, who wrote the latest hit show, ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ the only alternative is giving up his press card.”

Because at first, when I told a friend that they wanted me to play Tom in “Glass Menagerie,” the response was “Who’s playing Laura, Estelle Parsons?”

In December, he was sued by the University of the South, which owns the rights to the plays of Tennessee Williams, over a recent revival of “The Glass Menagerie”; the lawsuit was settled last month.

At the Belasco, the Broadway house on West 44th Street, the wheelchair is one of the conspicuous elaborations the director Sam Gold has brought to his production of “The Glass Menagerie,” the beloved Tennessee Williams drama.