Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Glass menagerie

found: Wikipedia, May 2, 2017(The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944; Two Hollywood movie versions of The Glass Menagerie have been produced: 1950, directed by Irving Rapper; 1987, directed by Paul Newman; Akale (2004), Indian adaptation of the play, filmed in the Malayalam language; Iranian film Here Without Me (2011) is also an adaptation of the play, in a contemporary Iranian setting; first radio adaptation of the play was performed on Theatre Guild on the Air in 1951; 1953 adaptation appeared on the radio series Best Plays; 1954 adaptation on Lux Radio Theatre; in 1964 Caedmon Records produced an LP version of the Glass Menagerie as the initial issue of its theatre series; first television adaptation was broadcast on December 8, 1966, as part of CBS Playhouse; second television adaptation was broadcast on ABC on December 16, 1973; parodied by Christopher Durang in a short one-act titled For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls; Ryan Landry and The Gold Dust Orphans did a parody called The Plexiglass Menagerie)

found: Britannica online, May 2, 2017(The Glass Menagerie, one-act drama by Tennessee Williams, produced in 1944 and published in 1945. The Glass Menagerie launched Williams's career and is considered by some critics to be his finest drama)

found: SparkNotes website, May 2, 2017:Literature Study Guides > The Glass Menagerie (The Glass Menagerie; Tennessee Williams; a memory play, and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield; around 1941, Williams began the work that would become The Glass Menagerie. The play evolved from a short story entitled "Portrait of a Girl in Glass," which focused more completely on Laura than the play does. In December of 1944, The Glass Menagerie was staged in Chicago; in March of 1945, the play moved to Broadway, where it won the prestigious New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; highly personal, explicitly autobiographical play)