The Glass Menagerie

Lyric Arts Main Street Stage
420 East Main Street Anoka

Few theatrical debuts have trumpeted a writer's genius louder than The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' first successful play. Tom Wingfield's a poet struggling with a mind-numbing job and a smothering home life. His overbearing mother, a former Southern belle, constantly pushes her son to bring home "gentleman callers" for his painfully shy sister. When Tom finally produces a male visitor, the guest's presence sends shockwaves through the family -- and the fragile fantasy world they've built is irreparably cracked. Full of poetry and longing, The Glass Menagerie was inspired directly from Williams' own experiences as a young man in St. Louis.