“I prefer a play to be not a noose but a net with fairly wide meshes. So many of its instants of revelation are wayward flashes, not part of the plan of an author but…
The challenge of live performance during the pandemic offered an opportunity for an aesthetic of long distances between the actors and the audience. Intimate sound was delivered by FM radio: gasps of breath, the spray…
Lorca’s play about the cruel beauty of passing time, written in 1935. Set in 1900 Granada, Spain. Doña Rosita rehearsing in Lubbock, Texas. Left to right: Esperanza Gonzales, Fernando Ramirez, Malāna Wilson, Anna Ruth Aaron-DeSpain. Below:…
Touring from marketplaces in Ghana to America, Kilroy maintains his innocence in a grasping world. The text by Tennessee Williams performed by Abibigroma.
Tennessee Williams was often asked “After the onstage action of “Streetcar Named Desire,” what would happen to Blanche?” He had a stock answer: she would start an affair with the asylum doctor, seduce him into…
Plays about death and longing, written by Tennessee Williams and performed with live music in a St. Louis mansion.
As refuge from the battle of life, in his plays Tennessee Williams offered men and women rented beds, often in the rooms of a boarding-house. Four short plays set by Williams in rented rooms in St. Louis, performed in the rooms of the historic Stockton House in St. Louis, under the direction of David Kaplan with Brian Hohlfeld staging “The Pink Bedroom.”
Tennessee Williams’ late 1950s text about an artist coming to the end of his images. South Africa’s 2016 National Arts Festival presents Marcel Meyer as The Man, Jennifer Steyn as The Woman, directed by David…
三個高女人 Edward Albee’s meditation on aging and identity at the Hong Kong Repertory Theater. Performed in Cantonese.
Tennessee Williams set many of his plays in hotel rooms and boarding-houses: way stations between life and death, dream and reality. As part of the 29th annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival March 25th through…
The words of Eudora Welty, the music of Beethoven June Recital, Mr. Kaplan’s tribute to Mississippi author Eudora Welty was written with and has been performed by Brenda Currin since 1979. Critically acclaimed performances throughout the United States…