Tony Award Winner Judith Ivey in Westport Country Playhouse Script in Hand Playreading of “The Pancake Club” on January 12

Westport Country Playhouse will present two-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey in a Script in Hand playreading of “The Pancake Club,” on Monday, January 12, at 7 p.m. The new comedy is written by Charlotte Booker and directed by Mark Shanahan, Playhouse artistic director. Additional cast members will be announced soon.

Judith Ivey plays Brenda, a waitress at a small-town diner where a group of senior men, calling themselves The Pancake Club, regularly meet. As Brenda struggles with the sudden death of her oldest friend, the Club members squabble over the eulogy, the widow refuses to grieve, a mysterious stranger threatens the town’s equilibrium, and Brenda’s only daughter teeters on the brink of a meltdown – forcing Brenda to face the question: Does anybody ever truly grow up?