Ironically, Tennessee Williams, a gay playwright, wrote some of the most iconic roles for women in theater. He created parts such as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Maggie in A Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and Amanda in Glass Menagerie. These are serio …Read more

Like his breakthrough 1944 play The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer (1979) is set in a humble St. Louis apartment in the 1930s. It’s another of the many late-career titles that failed to revive Williams’ faded car …Read more

THE BOTTOM LINE: With a fine cast and a lovely little theater, this New Lamps production of The Glass Menagerie is an enjoyable way either to see the classic play for the first time, or to revisit it again. WHAT IT’S ABOUT: This Tennessee Williams pl …Read more

Juan Francisco Villa and Daniel K. Isaac, the stars of The Gentleman Caller, talked to us about playing legendary playwrights Tennessee Williams and William Inge, in Philip Dawkins’ sexy new play about the ways in which we grow into the people we wer …Read more

Complete with youthful sensitivity, fading southern belles, and reminiscing on days past, “Hello to Rose: One Act Plays by Tennessee Williams” gives the perfect overview of Williams’ timeless style. Through this brief but immersive exploration of som …Read more

Update: I was informed by the playwrights’ estate that I am in fact in error to make a change to this or any other copyrighted work, and so we performed The Last of My Solid Gold Watches as originally written. My apologies to all those who were offen …Read more

In the Duo Multicultural Arts Center, a beautiful theatre reminiscent of Tennessee Williams’ New Orleans, The Playhouse Creatures have mounted their own Tennessee Williams Festival. Each evening of the three-day festival features A Tennessee Triptych …Read more

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, Tennessee Williams’s 1969 one-act (two scene) play, is such a dark, bitter work that it would seem wrong to call seeing it a “rare treat.” But the current production (at the tiny 292 Theatre in the East Village) will be a …Read more

The Gallery Players’ rendition of Sweet Bird of Youth is all the beautiful raw tragedy at the heart of Tennessee Williams’ works, which is perhaps the greatest gift an audience can get. Under the flawless direction of Jesse Marchese, these actors del …Read more