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The Glass Menagerie

 

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NY Times feature article on director David Cromer

Write-up of David Cromer for Best Director in Chicago Magazine

NY Times Best of New York Theatre article

David Cromer to direct Neil Simon on Broadway

Meet the Director

DAVID CROMER makes his KC Rep debut with The Glass Menagerie. His home base is Chicago where his productions have garnered a total of 16 Joseph Jefferson Awards including Best Production and Best Director for The Cider House Rules, The Price and Angels in America. His critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Adding Machine: A Musical recently won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical and a Lucille Lortel award and an Obie award for outstanding direction.

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The Glass Menagerie Calendar

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Copaken Stage

Jan. 9-Feb. 8, 2009

Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by David Cromer

 

The Glass Menagerie is part of the Sprint 2008-09 Copaken Stage Series sponsored by


One of the Great Classics of American Theatre!

Tennessee Williams’ enduring classic is an award-winning portrayal of a disintegrating family during the depression of the 1930s. Looking back through the eyes of Amanda Wingfield’s son Tom we share an intimate moment of their family life in a St. Louis tenement house in the delicate atmosphere of time remembered. Amanda, a former Southern belle, places well-meaning but unrealistic demands on her exceedingly shy and slightly crippled daughter Laura, driving her to seek refuge in a world of fantasy that revolves around her collection of glass animals. Torn between loyalty to his sister and his desire to be free of his family, Tom escapes into a world of alcohol and poetry. When Tom brings home a friend to meet Laura, Amanda hopes this might finally be the suitor who can bring her daughter out of her reclusive shell. Vulnerable and tragic, The Glass Menagerie is one of Williams’ most intimate and heartrending dramas and introduced him as one of the preeminent American playwrights of the 20th century.

The Buzz

"'[David Cromer's] interpretations never feel general or vague,' she says. 'He’s got a meticulous brain. And he’s not driven by overarching external ideas about a play. Everything that’s happening in David’s productions is happening between people. He’s also completely unafraid of sentiment, but he delivers the sentimental in an honorable way.'"

Anna D. Shapiro, in Charles Isherwood's NY Times article on director David Cromer

David Cromer, director of The Glass Menagerie,  in The New York Times

Theatre critic Charles Isherwood listed two shows directed by David Cromer as two of the ten best New York shows for 2008. Cromer directed a critically-acclaimed production of The Adding Machine on Broadway and Our Town, a Chicago-based production, which opens in New York this winter. Read the article.

Cromer is currently directing The Glass Menagerie at the Rep. More about The Glass Menagerie.

 

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