Williams was heavily influenced by the trials and tragedies that touched his life and often incorporated these elements – including his sister’s schizophrenia and frontal lobotomy – into …

His big break came when The Glass Menagerie, a play that Williams had begun as a filmscript, opened in Chicago’s Civic Theatre to excellent reviews. The play opened on Broadway three …

Mar 19, 2018 · This contemporary retelling of Williams’ drama is set in Chicago two years ago, when national immigration laws were becoming more stringent and the Cubs looked as if …

Dec 18, 2014 · It opened the day after Christmas in 1944 for a 10-week run at the Civic Theatre. The famously delicate play almost didn’t make it back to New York. This scene is dramatically …

Mar 2, 2014 · The Tennessee Williams Project directed by Matt Hawkins (Jeff Award winner for Best Director and Musical for The Hypocrites' Cabaret, 2010) is an evening of one-act plays …

Jan 21, 2025 · Written by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor and billed as “a play inspired by the later years of Tennessee Williams’ life” this beautiful piece benefits greatly by the always …

Robin Lord Taylor plays Tennessee Williams, and Brandon Flynn plays Marlon Brando in Gregg Ostrin’s Kowalski, directed by Colin Hanlon, at the Duke on 42nd Street. (© Russ Rowland) …

Playwright Tennessee Williams discusses his play "The Night of the Iguana," which was currently playing at the Blackstone Theatre in Chicago. The conversation takes place in Mr. Williams' …

Apr 4, 2024 · Having seen Tennessee Williams “A Streetcar Named Desire” numerous times before, the wonder was how the Paramount Theatre’s “Bold Series” production could be …

Richly poetic and raw, filled with flawed human beings and cries from a battered heart, Tennessee Williams’ brilliant plays burned brightly on the American stage and set him apart as one of the …