Few American playwrights stir the imagination of theater-goers quite like Tennessee Williams in this brilliant classic. His semi-autobiographical memory play chronicles a critical few days in the life of the Wingfield family and launched Williams to international notoriety in the mid-1940s. This American standard continues to run to sold out audiences across the country not only for its lyricism and beauty but also for its unique exploration of family and personal expectations.
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Joe Palmore as Tom Wingfield
Kim Tobin-Lehl as Amanda Wingfield
Faith Fossett as Laura Wingfield
Noah Alderfer as Gentlemen Caller
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REVIEW:
Broadway World: “4th Wall Theatre Company Presents Polished GLASS MENAGERIE”
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Houston Press: “A New Look at the Classic THE GLASS MENAGERIE at 4th Wall Theatre Co.”
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Houston Chronicle: Top 5 Stage Picks for The Fall - Glass Menagerie
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Stage Manager | Kalin Menzel
Set Designer | Ryan McGettigan
Lighting Designer | Christina Giannelli
Sound Designer | Robert Leslie Meek
Costume Designer | Leah Smith
Properties Master | Shelby Blocker
Properties Designer | Peter Ton
Scenic Production | Santiago Sepeda
Board Operator | Steven Aguilar
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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. He introduced "plastic theatre" in this play and it closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Much of Williams's most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays, and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Source: Wikipedia
