Kansas City Rep's GLASS MENAGERIE Heads Wall Street Journal's Top Ten List

Wall Street Journal theatre critic Terry Teachout's admiration of innovative director David Cromer's work has resulted in two of the director's productions making it to the top of Teachout's 2009 list of the country's best theatre. Kansas City Rep's acclaimed production of The Glass Menagerie, directed by Cromer, shared the top honors with his Off Broadway revival of Our Town, which is now the longest-running production of Our Town in history.

"I wish The Glass Menagerie had transferred to New York and run at least as long," said Teachout, who went on to praise Cromer for his "uncanny ability to take a familiar script and make it seem wholly new-yet it is his great gift to serve the plays that he directs, rather than bending them out of shape. He is already a true master of poetic naturalism, and I expect still greater things from him in the years to come."

In his national review of The Glass Menagerie earlier this year, Teachout called Cromer a "re-creative genius" and wrote "The greatest of all American plays has received a production worthy of its beauty and truth."

Photo: Susan Bennett (Laura) and Annalee Jefferies (Amanda) in David Cromer's 2009 staging of The Glass Menagerie at Kansas City Rep.
Photo by Don IPock

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