That Uncertain Muse and Witness, Memory

NYTimes.com: “Blow out your candles, Laura,” Tom says. But she doesn’t.
At the end of the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie,” the candles of Laura Wingfield, the housebound sister of Tom, the play’s narrator, remain lighted, disrupting a darkness that would otherwise be complete. Their pulsing brightness lingers, like a retinal afterglow, and it’s the final image you take away from John Tiffany’s production at the Booth Theater.