The Glass Menagerie
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 22, 2005
Closed Jul 3, 2005

Playing at
Barrymore Theatre

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Running Time:
2hr. 20min.
(includes 1 intermission)

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

This spring, two-time Academy Award-winner Jessica Lange returns to Broadway for a strictly limited engagement, 20 weeks only, in Tennessee Williams' masterpiece The Glass Menagerie, directed by David Leveaux.

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Glass Menagerie premiered on Broadway in 1945 and was the playwright's first great success. Set in St. Louis in the 1930's, the memory play tells the story of the Wingfield family - Tom, who is torn between his obligation to his family and his desire to break away, his overbearing mother Amanda, and his frail sister Laura, whose memory he cannot escape. The Glass Menagerie also stars Joey Collins, Sarah Paulson, and Christian Slater.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Barrymore Theatre
243 W 47th St
New York, NY 10036

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The Glass Menagerie initially astonished Broadway first-nighters on March 31, 1945, almost exactly 60 years ago. Theatergoers who saw the work during the premiere run are still talking in reverent tones about Laurette Taylor's performance as Amanda Wingfield, the fading Southern belle who's trying to do right by her adult son and daughter in limited circumstances and with painfully alienating maternal strategies.

In the introduction to the published script, Tennessee Williams -- who put himself on the map as a major metropolis with this play -- referred to Taylor's "extraordinary power." During the section of Rick McKay's Broadway: The Golden Age that's devoted to Taylor, a number of stil[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Mar 23, 2005