Quote of the Day

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

• Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of The Gentleman Caller. Tennessee Williams is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.