Director David Cromer's hit revisit of Tennessee Williams' classic The Glass Menagerie was both theater to savor and theater to shake — that rare production in which every element feels planned and balanced, arcing toward some tough emotional truth. As imagined by Cromer and his world-class cast, the hurt suffered by the Wingfield family felt fresh and unique yet universal in the way of great art. Cromer is an Obie winner best known for his work off-Broadway and in Chicago; in Kansas City, he didn't temper his creativity. He set his Glass Menagerie in a home caught in midexplosion — its walls and ceilings set at cockeyed angles, unconnected to the floor or one another — and integrated marvelous video projections into the storytelling, an innovation that, for all its impressive technology, actually hewed closer to Williams' original intentions than most productions. His characters ached, and we did, too.
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