Production Photos: Shawn G. Henry

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Cast: Adrianne Krstansky (Amanda), De’Lon Grant (Tom), Liza Giangrande (Laura), Patrick O’Konis (Jim).

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Director: Doug Lockwood, Set Design: Jenna McFarland Lord, Lighting Design: Amanda Fallon, Costume Design: Nia Safarr Banks, Sound Design: Aubrey Dube, Props Design: Emme Shaw.

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Press:

‘Doug Lockwood’s production of The Glass Menagerie emerged with a depth and fidelity to Tennessee Williams that felt both grounded and newly revealing...this was a Menagerie that didn’t try to reinvent the play; it simply allowed it to ache in new ways.’
- Chris Ehlers for Evening Transcript

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‘In Doug Lockwood’s rigorously thought-through, beautifully executed staging of ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ the autobiographical work that Tennessee Williams called a memory play is also a ghost story, populated with phantoms Williams would never quite outrun...Lockwood and his design team create a visual and aural poetry that complements and enhances Williams’s poeticized dialogue, while a cast of four immerse themselves in their characters so fully that the stakes are clear for each...Among other things, ‘The Glass Menagerie’ is a portrait of the artist at the moment when he chooses his art over everything else. Lockwood and Co. underscore the difficulty, the cost, and ultimately, the necessity of that choice...Lockwood links the workings of memory to the workings of the imagination’

- Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

 

‘Simply lovely. Director Doug Lockwood handles the dignity, and vulnerability of these characters with great compassion. ‘

- Joyce Kulhawik

 

‘With exquisite direction by Doug Lockwood, Gloucester Stage presents their 46th anniversary summer season with Tennessee Williams’ classic drama The Glass Menagerie live and in person at Gloucester Stage Company in Gloucester, Massachusetts through June 28.’

- The Sleepless Critic

 

‘Director Doug Lockwood has not only created a sensitive and movingly rendered production of this 80-year-old masterpiece, he has also gently tweaked its backstory.’ 

- R. Scott Reedy for Broadway World

 

‘It’s hard to imagine any theater company could add anything new. Yet, Gloucester Stage has effectively (and thankfully) taken the road less traveled in its presentation of the 80-year-old classic with an interesting and thought-provoking production that allows the audience to experience Williams’ script anew through an exciting, hyper-focused and refractive lens.’

- Shelley A. Sackett for Theatre Mirror

 

‘This production is something special:  it’s a thoughtful, emotionally rich take on a play that, when done well, can and does still hit hard...Directed by Doug Lockwood, The Glass Menagerie at Gloucester Stage is one of those productions that lingers and stays with you long after you leave the theater.’

- Kapiolani Kassal for Booked and Scene

 

‘Leave it to multi-talented Doug Lockwood to bring inspired new insight to a Tennessee Williams classic. The gem in question is “The Glass Menagerie,” and Lockwood has brilliantly taken his cue from the great dramatist’s own stage directions – especially regarding the setting and contrast between the surrealistic elements of the first act and realistic elements of the second...Williams speaks of “transformation” in his production notes, and Lockwood effectively transforms the look of the family’s apartment for the second act and the arrival of Jim O’Connor, the Gentleman Caller. The after-first-act transformation – during which furnishings appear, the photograph of Amanda’s long-gone husband fills the earlier empty wall frame and the title glass pieces, as well as a significant candelabra, join the proceedings – is simply breathtaking. The same grandeur informs the portrayals of the stellar cast under Lockwood’s loving direction.’ 

- Jules Becker from Boston Theatre WordPress

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‘The long love scene between Jim and Laura is exquisitely done, and it is to the credit of both O’Konis and Giangrande – and clearly under Doug Lockwood’s expert direction – that it has the kind of developmental eloquence that it does...Indeed, it is in the subtleties of these characters that the greatest power of this drama comes forth, and this wonderful production of Williams’ first entry into the greatest hits of twentieth century drama offers a potent realization of its promise.’

- Charles Munitz for Boston Arts Diary