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 …

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 …

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 …

Tennessee Williams, ca. 1965. Photograph by Orlando Fernandez. In Chicago, Williams was hard at work on the production of a new play being done at the Goodman Theater. It was a …

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 …

Feb 20, 1994 · It was a difficult and precarious time for Williams, who became shakier and more demanding as opening night neared; and the play, despite flashes of the old fire, later flopped …

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 …

Jan 12, 2013 · On the frigid December night in 1944 that The Glass Menagerie premiered in Chicago, the woman who originated the role of Amanda Wingfield, Laurette Taylor, came face …

Chicago premiere of four Tennessee Williams one acts thought to have been written between 1938 and 1945 and left unpublished until 2003. Includes Mr. Paradise, The Pink Bedroom …

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.Along with contemporaries …