Rita Moreno in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Berkeley, CA)
The incomparable Rita Moreno returns to Berkeley Rep for a role as iconic as she is: Amanda in The Glass Menagerie. This is your chance to witness an extraordinary performance from one of the few artists to win the Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy! Tennessee Williams' beloved "memory play" is an invitation to see one of the great actresses of our time in the intimate, 400-seat Thrust Stage. Ms. Moreno is joined by a supremely talented cast and directed by Berkeley Rep's Obie Award-winning associate artistic director, Les Waters.
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- “Rita Moreno charms, smothers, and guilt-trips her thin-blooded children in this splendid revival of Tennessee Williams’ classic…Erik Lochtefeld’s witty, overtly gay, sympathetic Tom bridges the gap between modern audiences and this 1944 gem.”—Entertainment Weekly
- “Stunningly designed and expertly performed, Williams’ 2 3/4-hour memory play bristles with life...it’s a Menagerie clearly conceived as if it were a new play…Rita Moreno stars as Amanda Wingfield, in a beautifully nuanced portrait that becomes the throbbing, awful but inescapably empathetic heart of Les Waters’ engrossing revival.”—San Francisco Chronicle
- “Lustrous…extraordinary…Director Les Waters creates a Glass that is jagged and refracts pain and love and hostility and desperation with the kind of clarity and confusion that would likely thrill Williams himself…Waters has a great actress on the job: Rita Moreno…giving one hell of a heartbreaking performance.”—Oakland Tribune
- “Stunning…strikingly innovative…Rita Moreno, Berkeley Rep deliver devastating new Glass Menagerie…a wonderful new look at an old friend”—Contra Costa Times
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The incomparable Rita Moreno returns to Berkeley Rep for a role as iconic as she is: Amanda in The Glass Menagerie. If you missed her in 2004’s Master Class, this is your chance to witness an extraordinary performance from one of the few artists to win the Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy! For Amanda, memory is a refuge; for her son, it’s a prison. And for you, Tennessee Williams’ beloved “memory play” is an invitation to see one of the great actresses of our time in the intimate, 400-seat Thrust Stage. Ms. Moreno is joined by a supremely talented cast and directed by Berkeley Rep’s OBIE Award-winning associate artistic director, Les Waters.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Founded in 1968, the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre has established a national reputation for its ambitious programming and dynamic productions. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tony Taccone and Managing Director Susan Medak, Berkeley Rep seeks to engage its audience in an ongoing dialogue of ideas. Through its bold choice of material and vivid style of production, Berkeley Rep reflects a commitment to diversity, excitement, and quality. The company is especially well known for its presentations of important new dramatic voices and its fresh adaptations of seldom-seen classics.
Berkeley Rep operates two performance spaces: the Roda Theatre, a 600-seat proscenium theatre, and the 400-seat Thrust Stage.