(That edition, last November, became a radio play.) As they weighed venue options for this year’s festival with health and safety considerations during the pandemic, the apartments seemed to be a serendipitous fit. Hohlfeld and Carrie Houk, the festival’s executive artistic director, had initially targeted a local auditorium with ties to Williams’s early theater career for a 2020 “Menagerie” production. “We’re using fire escapes that he probably walked on,” the director, Brian Hohlfeld, said in an interview the week of opening night, adding, “It is very humbling and very daunting.”
Louis, still feels unexpectedly immersive, with a set that stretches from a small stage in the parking lot to the existing maze of metal walkways that cover the side of the building.
He was long gone by the time he wrote “The Glass Menagerie,” his first hit, in 1944 - but this production, which opened Thursday from the Tennessee Williams Festival St.
Williams’s family moved to 4633 Westminster Place - now called “The Tennessee” - from Mississippi in 1918, when Williams was 7, and lived there for four years before moving elsewhere in the city.
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