1) What is the provenance of the text? In the UCLA library there is a folder, deposited in 1970, with unnumbered pages, marked in Tennessee Williams’ handwriting “The Day on Which a Man Dies, an Occidental…
A compact disc recording of Alison Fraser’s sizzling performance. In a play written by Tennessee Williams, music is the sound of paradise drifting in from around the corner, across the alley, from the room next…
Tenn at One Hundred, edited by David Kaplan, is a comprehensive look at the reputation of America’s greatest playwright Tennessee Williams. Published on the occasion of Tennessee Williams’ centennial, Tenn at One Hundredcontains eighteen essays by authors including John Lahr, William Jay Smith, Sam Staggs, Amiri Baraka, John Patrick Shanley, Kenneth Holditch, Allean Hale and others. Collectively the essays explore Tennessee Williams and his legacy: the plays, the films, reviews, talent, tenacity, good forturne, bad timing, friends, addictions, critics, producers, publishers, directors, actors and biographers that helped to shape Tennessee Williams’ critical reputation and iconic status over the past seventy years.
In Mongolia audiences laughed as the maids tried to poison their mistress. The descendants of Genghis Khan understand the glamour of infamy.
In the photograph above the maids wait for their over-friendly mistress to drink a poisoned cup of tea. “It’s such a pleasure making people happy,” Madame croons. The cruel humor of the play appealed to Mongolians, who understood the quest for proud infamy. Women played all three roles.
The flower called asphodel is waxy and pale. The leaves are gray. It was named by the ancient Greeks, and grew, so the Iliad has it, in the meadow of the underworld where dead souls…
The hallucinatory cult classic by Jane Bowles. “a roller coaster of a ride, and just as thrilling.” Robert Israel, Edge Magazine 2013 photos above by Josh Andrus. 2014 photos below by Ride Hamilton. To see more…
Eugene O’Neill’s story re-located to a family of Russian emigres in Brooklyn. Written in 1932, set in 1906 by O’Neill, set in its Russian production in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach. The play was performed in Russian and…
Eudora Welty’s story “Music from Spain” set to music inspired by Andres Segovia. Performed by actress Brenda Currin and pianist Philip Fortenberry, A Fire Was in My Head invites short haunting compositions by Mompou and Bach, and…
A place that ever was lived in is like a fire that never goes out. – from Some Notes on River Country by Eudora Welty March 11 premiere at the Poetry Center at the 92nd St Y…
Two short plays by Tennessee Williams pair autobiography & science-fiction. Tennessee Suite begins with The Traveling Companion, a late self-portrait by Tennessee Williams in which a famous author (Vieux) checks into a Manhattan hotel room with only…