Tenessee Williams’ ‘The Glass Menagerie’ opens at The Rep on Tuesday

‘THE GLASS MENAGERIE’

TUESDAY 9/2-SUNDAY 9/14. Arkansas Repertory Theatre. $20-$65.

The last production of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre ’s 2025 SummerStage season and the show that put playwright Tennessee Williams on the map, “The Glass Menagerie” is a bonafide American classic. Drawing from the challenges of Williams’ Depression-era childhood — particularly his schizophrenic sister — the play is a tense family portrait of a mother, Amanda Wingfield, and her two adult children, Tom and Laura, the three of whom live together in a cramped St. Louis apartment. Wistful for her days as a carefree debutante, Amanda spends her time fretting over the romantic eligibility of Laura, whose physical disability and emotional fragility have left her isolated from the wider world. Tom, an aspiring