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Amidst the hoopla over the Kennedy Center's festival of plays by Tennessee Williams, Arena Stage has quietly mounted a sublime production of Williams' seldom-seen "Orpheus Descending." It's a ...

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In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche DuBois leaves her secret past in small town Mississippi and arrives in New Orleans, a place full of temptation. In “Orpheus Descending,” which premiered on ...

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ASthe leading character in “The Fugitive Kind,” a movie based on Tennessee Williams’ “Orpheus Descending” and adapted for the screen by him and Meade Roberts, Marlon Brando represents an avatar of ...

Tennessee Williams “Orpheus Descending” is so patently a Williams play that at times it nearly resembles a parody of the great American playwright. Yet Dark Side of Saturn, an Orlando-based theater ...

On opening night of ”Orpheus Descending,” Tallulah Bankhead cooed to Tennessee Williams, ”Darling, they`ve absolutely ruined your perfectly dreadful play.” Bankhead was wrong on the second count.

At first I thought the Royal Exchange had unusually good taste, playing Bessie Smith and John Lee Hooker in the foyer before this play began. It turned out, however, it was scene-setting. The blues ...

This wild confection of southern belle pettiness, redneck malevolence and racist viciousness takes pretty much every trope of the deep south, laces them with poetic metaphor and whips them into a gasp ...