Workshop Theatre kicks off our 2023-2024 season with the Tennessee Williams classic The Glass Menagerie. The Glass Menagerie opens this Friday, September 15, and runs through September 24.

Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura, who has a physical handicap and debilitating shyness. The father has left home; Tom supports his mother and sister with a shoe-factory job he finds unbearable. When Amanda convinces Tom to bring home from his workplace a “gentleman caller” for Laura, the illusions that Tom, Amanda, and Laura have each created in order to make life bearable collapse about them.

A drama of great tenderness, charm, and beauty, The Glass Menagerie is an icon of the American theater. The Glass Menagerie premiered in Broadway in March 1945, and remains a relevant story to this day.

Bakari Lebby directs a talented cast that includes Katie Mixon (named Best Local Actress in The Free Times 2023 Best of Columbia poll), Carly Siegel, Lamont Gleaton (nominee for Best Local Actor in The Free Times 2023 Best of Columbia poll), and Marshall Spann.

Tickets for The Glass Menagerie are now available. You can reserve your tickets online (click the link below), by calling the Box Office at 803-799-6551, or tickets may be purchased at the door the night of the show.

For 56 years, Workshop Theatre has been the creative domain of many of the area's most talented actors, directors, and technicians. It is a place where those who love the theatre join in a community that values the pulsing experience of live theatre. 

Workshop Theatre's mission is to provide theatre of the highest quality for audiences of all ages. Workshop Theatre shall serve as a creative outlet for all its participants, including its audiences both present and future, its various directors, actors, designers, playwrights and technicians. Workshop Theatre is committed to training in theatre arts, both formally in an education program and informally through production experience. Workshop expects to challenge as well as satisfy its varied audiences.

Workshop Theatre is supported in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Workshop is also receives funding from the City of Columbia H-tax Grant funding program.

We need volunteers in every part of our productions. If you are interested in being a member of the Workshop crew, please contact us at [email protected]