By Tennessee Williams
Adapted by Taibi Magar and BD Wong
Directed by Taibi Magar
A Solo Performance Featuring
Tony Award-Winner BD Wong
April 9 – May 2, 2027
“One of the most moving plays ever written.”
— The New York Times
“A haunting memory play of rare beauty and emotional power..”
— The Guardian
In this bold and intimate reimagining of Tennessee Williams’ American masterpiece, Tony Award–winning actor BD Wong performs The Glass Menagerie as a one-man tour de force, bringing every character of the Wingfield family to life in a deeply personal exploration of memory, longing, and love.
Through the eyes of Tom Wingfield—forty years older and still haunted—we enter a space shaped by memory, where the past refuses to settle. Confronting the ghosts of the night he left home, Tom conjures his determined mother Amanda, fiercely holding to her ideas of how life ought to be, and his fragile sister Laura, retreating into the delicate world of her glass animal collection. As the long-awaited gentleman caller arrives for dinner, the moment unfolds again before him—charged with expectation, illusion, and the quiet pressure of a life Tom could not live. Revisiting it now, he wrestles with the guilt of leaving and with the truth of the self he once struggled to name.
With extraordinary theatrical imagination, Wong embodies the voices, humor, and heartbreak of Williams’ unforgettable characters, as Tom relives the night that shaped him. Shifting between memory and confession, the performance reveals the fragile beauty of the play—and the cost of abandoning one life to build another—in a completely new way.
This singular production invites audiences to gather around one of the greatest works of American theatre—rediscovering how family, memory, and the stories we tell about who we are bind us together across time.
Three Things to Know: 2026/27 Season
BD Wong was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He made his Broadway debut in “M. Butterfly.” He is the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theater World Award for the same performance.
“The scene is memory and is therefore non-realistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.”
-Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams was a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, prolific poet, and author of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His legacy includes theatrical masterpieces and American Classics.
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Saturday, April 17, 2027 at 2PM
This performance offers live audio description for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Through a wireless headset, audience members receive a spoken account of the visual elements of the production, including actions, costumes, and scenery.
Sunday, April 18, 2027 at 3PM
This performance includes open captioning, displaying the spoken dialogue, sound effects, and other audio elements in real time on a screen visible from select seating areas. The open captioning machine will be located at the front of the right side Orchestra section. For the best viewing experience of the captions, we recommend seating in Rows C–D of the right Orchestra.
Wednesday, April 21, 2027 at 1PM
This performance features live American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation by certified interpreters. Reserved seating is available to ensure optimal sightlines to the interpreters.
Age Recommendation
Ages 12+
Content Advisory
Contains mature themes and emotional family conflict.
CREATIVE TEAM
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in 1940 for his play BATTLE OF ANGELS, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and in 1955 for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Other plays include SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, CAMINO REAL, BABY DOLL, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, ORPHEUS DESCENDING, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, and THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY. Tennessee Williams died in 1983.
The University of the South, a national ranked liberal arts college and Episcopal seminary, is the beneficiary of the Tennessee Williams’ estate, including the copyrights to all his works. This gift was made as a memorial to Williams’ grandfather, the Reverend Walter E. Dakin, who studied at the University’s seminary in 1895.
The Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund is used to support the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference, and the School of Letters. The Fund also supports scholarships for students who wish to pursue creative writing and fellowships which are granted annually to budding playwrights or authors. Those fellows include Ann Patchett, Claire Messud, Tony Early, and Mark Richard. The Tennessee Williams Center houses the University’s theater department, and a portion of the Fund supports the department and its theatrical productions.
Visit www.sewanee.edu for more information.
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