In an extract from Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh " winner of the 2015 Sheridan Morley prize for theatre biography " John Lahr revisits the runaway success of The Glass MenagerieWhen the final curtain came down on the Broadway opening of The Glass Menagerie, the cast took 24 curtain calls.Within a month of the play's opening, VE Day brought an end to the war in Europe, and President Franklin Delano R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM on March 19, 2015