The Glass Menagerie: Tennesse Williams

OVERVIEW

"TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' COLORFUL GENIUS HAS BEEN GLORIOUSLY REDEEMED..."

- Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times

"GO! JUDITH IVEY IS NOTHING SHORT OF A TRIUMPH."

- Bill Raden, LA Weekly

"A STUNNING AND ORIGINAL TAKE ON AN  AMERICAN CLASSIC... This might be the funniest "Menagerie" you'll ever see... my hunch is  Williams would be knocked out be the transformation…Judith Ivey's Amanda is a  fascinating creation."

- Jay Reiner, The  Hollywood Reporter
"SEAMLESS AND CAPTIVATING... This 'Menagerie' is filled with humor. Gordon Edelstein has come up with a  brilliant way of handling Tom's monologues..."
  - Paul Hodgins, The Orange County  Register
"Gordon  Edelstein's SPLENDID,  UNMISSABLE "The Glass Menagerie" brings out all manner of the  hitherto-unseen insights, stage business and laughs."
  - Bob Verini, Variety
One  of the greatest American plays finds  new light in this critically-lauded re-imagining  of the classic story of a fragile family hanging its hopes on the arrival of a “gentleman  caller.”
Two-time  Tony Award®-winner Judith Ivey features in director Gordon  Edelstein’s sparkling new production that makes this Menagerie as  fresh and vital and sadly magical as its original 1944 debut.
Returning to the roles they played at the Long Wharf Theatre and in the subsequent  Roundabout presentation are Patch Darragh as Tom, the son who works in a shoe  factory and is torn between his role as the family breadwinner and his desire  to lead a life of his own and Keira Keeley as Laura, his frail sister who has  retreated to an imaginary world caring for her collection of glass  animals. 
  “The quicksilver Darragh is a revelation …[He] is giving the kind of  performance that lingers in the mind for life.”
- Erik Haagensen, Back Stage
“…there’s  subtle craft in Keeley’s take on Laura’s fragility, and her performance grows  weightier and more complex as the story culminates in a candle-lit kiss with  her oblivious gentleman caller,”
- Jeff  Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly
Ben McKenzie, who is best known for his roles on “Southland” and “The O.C.,”  and in the films “Johnny Got His Gun” and “Junebug” joins the company as Jim,  the Gentleman Caller.