The Glass Menagerie Revival
Run Time:
2 hours and 5 minutes, with no intermission
2 hours and 5 minutes, with no intermission
Ages: 14+
Closing: May 21, 2017The 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’ Broadway Review: Sally Field Leads Solid Gold Revival
8 / 10
Sam Gold is the latest to pick up the next-to-nothing-is-more approach to Tennessee Williams. The American director's 'Glass Menagerie' opened Thursday at the Belasco Theatre, and it is pure Gold in every sense of the word. Has there ever been a barer stage on Broadway? The four actors enter from a side door on the orchestra level, with Sally Field pushing newcomer Madison Ferris in a wheelchair. What follows is one of the evening's many silent longueurs as Ferris, a woman with muscular dystrophy, negotiates the small staircase to the stage to take her place there. Occasionally, she walks by pushing her buttocks in the air and taking steps on her feet and hands. But for most of the production, this Laura sits on the floor or in the wheelchair. It's odd to begin a review by concentrating on an actor's physical challenges, but that first long ascent to the stage pretty much establishes Field's tortured Amanda Wingfield and, in essence, Gold's take on 'The Glass Menagerie.' It's a daring, masterful stroke, and one that redefines the Williams classic, and will influence every 'Menagerie' to come in the next few years.
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
Note: Award winners will appear on a background
| 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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