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Williams' play to open Mississippi tour in Columbus

The Commercial Dispatch - Jan 28, 2012
Planning is under way for the Mississippi tour opening of Tennessee Williams' play “Orpheus Descending” in Columbus from Feb. 23-25 by the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival in Massachusetts and Infinite Theater Co. of New York.

Green Eyes: Steamy, Intimate Play

BU Today - Jan 27, 2012
Erin Markey as sultry newlywed Mrs. Claude Dunphy in Tennessee Williams' Green Eyes. Photo by Travis Chamberlain Tennessee Williams' Green Eyes starts with a tousled young newlywed fixing her wide eyes on the audience and saying in a come-hither drawl, ...

Honoring Author Kate Chopin

Webster Kirkwood Times - Jan 28, 2012
by Fran Mannino Watching over the intersection of Euclid and McPherson avenues in the Central West End are busts of Tennessee Williams and TS Eliot, two of the area's most noteworthy writers. Joining that legendary duo in March will be a bronze ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire

by: Tennessee Williams

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In."

It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
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The Glass Menagerie

by: Tennessee Williams

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.

Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by: Tennessee Williams

The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person."

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt.
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Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

by: Christopher Bram
In the years following World War II, a small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come, and transforming the American literary landscape forever.

In EMINENT OUTLAWS, novelist Christopher Bram brilliantly chronicles the rise of gay consciousness in American writing. Beginning with a first wave of major gay literary figures-Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, and James Baldwin-he shows how (despite criticism and occasional setbacks) these pioneers set the stage for new generations of gay writers to build on what they had begun: Armistead Maupin, Edmund White, Tony Kushner, and Edward Albee among them.
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