Question: Actor Peter Lockyer recently returned to his native Connecticut to play in a five-character memory play by what famous American playwright?

 He was born in Poughkeepsie, NY.  As a child, he split his time between Toronto and Connecticut, and went to the same high school as actress Gretchen Mol.  Lockyer has appeared in numerous productions, including "Miss Saigon" as Chris, "Les Misérables" as Marius, and "La Boheme" on Broadway.  He has also appeared in a tour of "The Phantom of the Opera" and on TV with Bette Midler in a 1993 adaption of "".  After a break in performing, during which he earned dual master's degrees, qualifying him to teach in New York City, Lockyer returned to acting for the European tour of Barbra Streisand's "Broadway Boys".  He has also performed "42nd Street" in Europe and "Les Misérables" in China and South Korea. Peter Lockyer is an American actor and singer.  Recently, Lockyer returned to his native Connecticut to play the role of Tom in "The Glass Menagerie" at the historical Ivoryton Playhouse.  He is playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables in the current national tour.  Years before he played the role in a Hawaiian production of Les Misérables, which he directed himself.  Played JVJ in Les Misérables in US 25th Anniversary Tour and in 2015 at Queen's Theatre on London's West End in UK. <SEP>  The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Rose.  In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of "The Gentleman Caller". The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. <SEP> Herbert Harrison "Bert" Tilsley was played by Peter Dudley.  He was the first husband of Ivy Brennan and the father of Brian Tilsley.  Prior to his debut in 1979, Ivy had referred to her husband as 'Jack' and mentioned that they were childless.  During his final months on "Coronation Street" in 1983, Bert had been left partially disabled after being in an accident in Brian's garage involving a tyre compressor unit.  This was because actor Peter Dudley had suffered a stroke in real life but wanted to continue to appear in the series and so the garage accident was devised to explain his condition.  Bert's last appearance was in July 1983, and he died (offscreen) in January 1984 of a heart attack while in a psychiatric hospital, following a nervous breakdown.  Actor Peter Dudley died in October 1983 (three months before the character's offscreen death) after suffering a further stroke and multiple heart attacks. <SEP> The Seafarer is a 2006 play by Irish playwright Conor McPherson.  It is set on Christmas Eve in Baldoyle, a coastal suburb north of Dublin city.  The play centers on James "Sharky" Harkin, an alcoholic who has recently returned to live with his blind, aging brother, Richard Harkin.  As Sharky attempts to stay off the bottle during the holidays, he contends with the hard-drinking, irascible Richard and his own haunted conscience.  It was nominated for multiple Tony Awards as well as the Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award for Best Play.