A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister, Laura, and his colorful but overbearing mother, Amanda, all living together in a shabby apartment in St. Louis during the Depression and struggling to dilute the grim realities of daily living by way of memories, fantasies, and grandiose dreams about the future.

Three solitudes behind almost-closed doors; three human frailties; three ways to dream of a different life. The plot is simple, and elusive like a memory. A live broadcast of Ivo van Hove's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' acclaimed play, The Glass Menagerie.

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.