Iconic American Classic
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by DOUG LOCKWOOD
Through Tom’s cinematic eyes, his family’s life isn’t the dream he imagined. In a rundown St. Louis apartment the matriarch, Amanda Wingfield, is desperately clinging to a past of parties and endless callers. Her adult children, Tom and Laura, become victims of her delusions as she pushes for Tom to provide for the struggling family and Laura to find a husband. The two seek solace in ways of escaping their mother and their own misery until a visit from a gentleman caller presents the possibility of new opportunities.
Renowned playwright Tennessee Williams opens the 2025 Season with this classic drama, directed by Doug Lockwood. Running from June 5 to 28, all performances are at Gloucester Stage’s Theater 267 East Main Street, Gloucester. Showtimes are Wednesdays & Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm, and matinees Saturdays & Sunday at 3:00pm.
Runtime is 2 hours and 25 minutes, including a 10 minute intermission.
JUNE 5 – 28
Performances
7:30 pm, WED + THU
8:00 pm, FRI + SAT
3:00 pm, SAT + SUN
Preview Performances
June 5 @ 7:30 pm + 6 @ 8:00 pm
Champagne Opening
Saturday, June 7 @ 6:00 pm
Artist Talk Backs
June 14 + 21 @ 5:30 pm
Pre-show Coffee Break w/ Artistic Director Rebecca Bradshaw
June 15 + 22 @ 2:00 pm
Child Care Performance
June 14 @ 3:00 pm
Critical Praise for Gloucester Stage’s The Glass Menagerie
“It’s not often that the elements of direction, design, and performance merge as powerfully as they do in this Gloucester Stage Company production.”
“Director Doug Lockwood resurrects the dignity and beauty of these characters.”
“Just about perfect in every way”
“The acting in this four-hander is uniformly stellar, the direction more than spot on, and the script a critic’s delight.”
“A sensitive and movingly rendered production”
“a piercing study of human nature”
““The Glass Menagerie is a play that’s always haunted director Doug Lockwood…his connection to Glass Menagerie is evident in every detail of the show, creating a beautiful experience that audiences marveled at”
Marielle Sabbag, GEEKS (read full review here)
“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, Booked and Scene (read full review here)
“Boasting raw and compelling characters, The Glass Menagerie is an affecting drama that mixes relatable humor, cruelty, regret, and generational trauma, but also joy, sweetness and amazement.”
The Sleepless Critic (read full review here)
Trailers and Behind the Scenes videos for The Glass Menagerie
Meet the Creative Team
Tennessee Williams (he/him) / Playwright
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) explored passion with daring honesty and forged a poetic theatre of raw psychological insight that shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. The autobiographical The Glass Menagerie brought what Mr. Williams called “the catastrophe of success,” a success capped by A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most influential works of modern American literature. An extraordinary series of masterpieces followed, including Vieux Carre, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Rose Tattoo, Orpheus Descending and the classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Doug Lockwood (he/him) / Director
Directing credit at Gloucester Stage: Auld Lang Syne. Founding Member of Actors’ Shakespeare Project where he has directed: King Lear, Hamlet, Middletown, and Cymbeline. Directing in Boston and vicinity: Chesapeake and Cyrano (New Rep), Escape from Happiness (Brandeis). Directing for The Boston Conservatory at Berklee: Three Sisters, The Cradle Will Rock, Coolsville, Twelfth Night, MACHINAL, Cloud 9, Bent, Two Gentlemen of Verona-The Musical, The Beckett Bash, Landscape of the Body. Acting credits for Actors’ Shakespeare Project include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Pride and Prejudice, Richard II, Titus Andronicus and many others. Doug is a Professor of Theatre at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He received his MFA in Acting from The University of Washington under the direction of Steve Pearson.
Meet the Cast
Adrianne Krstansky* / Amanda
Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike, New Electric Ballroom, Gloucester Stage. Boston credits include Leopoldstadt, The Art of Burning, Doll’s House, Come Back Little Sheba (Elliot Norton Award) at the Huntington Theater; Paradise Lost, Britannicus, Ubu Rock at the American Repertory Theater; People, Places and Things, Every Brilliant Thing (IRNE award), Tribes, Body Awareness and Snakebit at Speakeasy Stage Company. Other credits include roles at Boston Playwrights Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Lyric Theater, New Repertory Theater. Regional credits: Shakespeare Theater: Leopoldstadt, Hartford Stage Company: The Art of Burning, Steppenwolf Theater: A Clockwork Orange, Twelfth Night, The Kitchen Theater: Tribes. New York City credits include Atlantic Theater Company, Luck, Pluck and Virtue, Public Theater, 365 Days/365 Plays. Film/TV credits include Invitation to a Bonfire, Little Women, American Woman, Olive Kitteridge and Company Men. She is a professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis University.
De’Lon Grant* / Tom
De’Lon Grant spent five years on Broadway in the Tony Award winning hit Come From Away, and also stars in The Live Capture currently streaming on Apple TV+. He spent three years touring domestically and internationally as Barry Belson in the Tony Award winning Broadway musical Jersey Boys. Regional credits include: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Ain’t No Mo’, Pru Payne, A Strange Loop, A Case For The Existence of God, Scottsboro Boys (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Invisible Man (The Huntington Theatre/Studio Theatre); Welcome to Matteson (New Jersey Repertory Theatre); Douglass (The Wit Theatre); Big River, Superior Donuts, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Lyric Stage Company); Big River, Richard III (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre); World Goes Round, Passing Strange, Dessa Rose (New Repertory Theatre); Harriet Jacobs (Central Square Theatre) De’Lon has award nominated podcast called Lemme Fix It! and is an Associate Professor of Theatre at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee social media: @thedelondotcom
Liza Giangrande* / Laura
Liza Giangrande is thrilled to be making her GSC debut! Off Broadway: Girls Who Walked On Glass (Gordon Farrell). Regional: Jo March in Little Women (Greater Boston Stage Company – Elliot Norton Award Nominee), Percy Talbott in Spitfire Grill (Umbrella Arts Center), Harriet Smith in Emma (Actor’s Shakespeare Project), Joan of Arc in Born to Do This (Company Theatre – World Premiere). Film & TV: Fetch With Ruff Ruffman (PBS Kids), Wish I Was There (NYIFA Best Actress Recipient). BA in Music from Fairfield University, Meisner Foundational Training from Michael Chekhov Actor’s Studio Boston, Vocal Training from Noel Smith Voice Studio. Many Thanks always to my family, friends, and mentors I simply would not be here without you!! To connect with Liza: @lizagiangrande (Instagram), @lizarookangaroo (TikTok).
Patrick O’Konis* / Jim
Gloucester Stage: The Hombres Off-Broadway: Act A Lady (Connolly Theater); A Map of Virtue (Irondale Center); Weasel Festival (The Public Theater). Regional: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas (Hartford Stage); John Proctor is the Villain (Huntington Theatre); Touching the Void (Apollinaire Theatre- Elliot Norton Nomination); Indecent (Wilbury Theatre Group); Mystic Pizza (Ivoryton Playhouse). Immersive Theater: Stranger Things Experience (Netflix/Fever); The Polar Express Train Ride (Universal/Rail Events). Director: Guarding (The Drama Studio); At the Wedding, Almost, Maine (Alternative College Theatre) Education: MFA (Brooklyn College), BA (College of the Holy Cross); Visiting Professor and Director at College of the Holy Cross, Directing Faculty at The Drama Studio (Springfield, MA). Forever for his family and all the broken unicorns. patrickokonis.com
Meet the Production Team
Ash Boze / Asst. Stage Manager + Apprentice
(she/ they) is a recent graduate from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She is an alum of Alpha Psi Omega. Recent credits include: Witch (McNeese Theatre) as Winnifred, Polaroid Stories (McNeese Theatre) as Orpheus, Tender Atlas (McNeese Theatre) as intimacy captain, Kimberly Akimbo (McNeese Theatre) as props designer, Christmas Bells (ACTS theatre, Lake Charles) as stage manager. They would like to thank their partner, Lana, for taking care of their animals so she has the chance to travel and work. As well as, her mom for always supporting her in every decision and opportunity.
Chris Daly* / Production Stage Manager
Chris is grateful to be joining their first production with Gloucester Stage. Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club (Production Management). Off-Broadway: Big Gay Jamboree (Production Management). Other credits include Out of the Earth (Mitu Theatre), Orlando, Once: The Musical, The Legend…Georgia McBride (Boston University). Thanks to the whole GSC team for having them on this season!
Aubrey Dube / Sound Designer
Paradise Blue, The Thin Place, Stew, Wipeout (Gloucester Stage); Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Ain’t No Mo’, A Case for the Existence of God, POTUS. (SpeakEasy) Fat Ham, Toni Stone, The Bluest Eye, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Clyde’s, (associate design) The Lehman Trilogy, The Grove (The Huntington); The Fortune Teller (Chuang Stage); Clyde’s (Berkeley Rep); Queens, Torch Song, The House of Ramon Iglesia, Thanksgiving Play (Moonbox Productions); Vinegar Tom, Monster, Serious Money, Pentecost (PTP/NYC); A Taste of Honey (BCAP); Fences, Network (Umbrella Stage); Downtown Crossing, Vietgone, Haunted, Morning Noon and Night (Company One). Aubrey holds an MFA in Sound Design from Boston University. Originally from Botswana, he now lives in Boston and hosts a soccer talk show on YouTube called @footballpowerhour. (he/him)
Olivia Dumaine / Intimacy Choreographer
Liv Dumaine (she/her, Intimacy Director) is a Boston-based actor and Intimacy Director. Select intimacy credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Piano Lesson, Emma, Romeo & Juliet, How I Learned to Drive, As You Like It (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Hombres (Gloucester Stage/Teatro Chelsea); All Shook Up (Reagle Music Theatre); Fade (Teatro Chelsea); The House of Ramón Iglesia, Passing Strange (Moonbox Productions); Beyond Words, Ada and the Engine (Central Square Theater). She is a graduate of the BFA Theatre Performance program at Salem State University, and is pending certification with Intimacy Directors & Coordinators. She is the resident Intimacy Director at Actors’ Shakespeare Project. www.LivDumaine.com
Amanda Fallon / Lighting Designer
(they/she) is a lighting designer, director, visual artist, and educator with love for new work and devising. Following the completion of an MFA in Lighting Design at Boston University, they’ve continued to design throughout New England for professional and educational institutions including Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Central Square Theatre, Speakeasy Stage Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, and Brandeis University. They are pleased to return to Gloucester!
Nia Safarr Banks / Costume Designer
Nia Safarr Banks is a Costume Designer from Richmond, Virginia. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Costume Design from Boston University in 2023, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has been nominated for two Richmond Critic Awards for her outstanding work in Costume Design, for both An Octoroon (2019) and A Christmas Kaddish (2022). She also designs costumes for various projects, including Hamlet at American Shakespeare Center, August Wilson’s Fences at Shakespeare and Company, and Self Portrait (Deluxe) at The Bushwick Starr.
Emme Shaw / Props Designer
Emme is very happy to be joining GSC this summer for Glass Menagerie. Emme is a long time artistic collaborator with GSC both as a designer and actor. Last season’s projects included Vanya and Sonya, and Masha, and Spike, and Wish You Were Here. Emme works frequently in Boston, most recently on Anne Bogart’s Carousel, with BLO. Emme trained at CMU Drama, and currently is head of Prop Design at BC Theater
Charlotte Teplitz / Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager
Charlotte is thrilled to be working with Gloucester Stage Company for the first time. Previous regional credits include Angles in America Part II, Murder on the Links, and the world premiere of Darker the Night, Brighter the Stars at Portland Stage Company. She is a proud eagle and graduate of Boston College. And as every show she works on will be, For Russ.
Critical Praise for Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie
“Mr. Williams has a real ear for faintly sardonic dialogue, unexpected phrases and an affection for his characters.”
“The texture of the play is music: nocturnal, poignant and poetic.”
“Vividly written… it reaches out tentacles, first tentative, then gripping and you are caught in its spell.”
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
ºThe Director is a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
^Represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE
THE GLASS MENAGERIE is presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.