The Glass Menagerie - 2017 Broadway History , Info & More
Belasco Theatre (Broadway)
111 West 44th St. New York, NY
Sally Field & Joe Mantello star in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway.
Two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field and two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello star in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie on Broadway. Also starring Finn Wittrock and Madison Ferris. Tony winner Sam Gold directs.
The Glass Menagerie is the play that brought a brilliant young writer named Tennessee Williams to national attention when it premiered on Broadway in 1945. More than seventy years later, Williams' most personal work for the stage continues to captivate and overwhelm audiences around the world.
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Sally Field stars in a 'Glass Menagerie' that breaks the mold
8 / 10
Surely, no star in the history of Broadway has made a more inauspicious entrance than Sally Field's first appearance as poor Amanda Wingfield in director Sam Gold's starkly unforgiving, mostly unafraid and surely unforgettable revival of 'The Glass Menagerie,' a production that scrambles the politics and poetics of the presumed fragile Tennessee Williams' fever dream by conceiving of a Laura whose disability is not slight, not in her own head, and not merely a symbolic manifestation of debilitating fraternal or maternal expectation...There will be some who argue that Gold's production fundamentally alters Williams' play.
'The Glass Menagerie': Theater Review
8 / 10
'I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion,' says Tom Wingfield, the thinly veiled stand-in for playwright Tennessee Williams in the opening monologue of his semi-autobiographical memory play, The Glass Menagerie. In a bold experiment that's often riveting but seldom wholly satisfying, director Sam Gold rips away illusion like a bandage off a wound - along with other signatures of the playwright such as poetry, magic, artifice - in a forensic examination that fights against the text just as Tom clashes in his love-hate relationship with his domineering mother, Amanda. Despite some fine work from the actors, you end up being moved more by the sheer resilience of the writing than by the intrusive presentation.
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The Glass Menagerie History
Other Productions of The Glass Menagerie
| 1945 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 1965 | Broadway |
The Twentieth Anniversary Production Broadway |
| 1975 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 1983 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 1994 | Broadway |
Roundabout Revival Broadway |
| 2005 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2010 | Off-Broadway |
Roundabout Revival Off-Broadway |
| 2013 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2017 | West End |
West End Revival West End |
| 2017 | Broadway |
2017 Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
| 2018 | Regional (US) |
Barrington Stage Company Production Regional (US) |
| 2022 | West End |
London Production West End |
| West End |
West End |
The Glass Menagerie - 2017 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Leading Actress in a Play | Sally Field |
| 2017 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Revival of a Play | The Glass Menagerie |
| 2017 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Sally Field |
| 2017 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Sally Field |
| 2017 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Sally Field |
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