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Why The Glass Menagerie Persists 

by Armond White

New Tennessee Williams production misunderstands a classic Zachary Quinto wants to be the Tom Wingfield for his era. In the new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' 1945 play The Glass Menagerie at the Booth Theater, Quinto presumes a modern Sad Young Man interpretation of the play as Williams' autobiographical gay memoir, making Tom (Williams' nickname) an archetype of the regret-filled gay youth who left his …

SOURCE: cityarts.info at 8:51pm on November 5, 2013