The First Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival
Provincetown 2006
Annual international theatre festival. David Kaplan is the curator.

The Festival presented Williams' texts, written in Provincetown, as interpreted in live performance, opera, ballet, modern dance, live music, songs, original plays, and new interpretations of familiar texts.
There was world premiere of The Parade, an important early play by Williams written and set in Provincetown.

Participants ranged from the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre to Atlanta's Capitol City Opera company, to the Provincetown High School production of The Glass Menagerie. For a full program of events and programs go to http://www.twptown.org/


For PDF articles about the 2006 Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival click on a journal logo

Move cursor over title to change pictures The Eccentricities of a Nightingale from Hong Kong The Hong Kong Repetory Theatre The Strange, the Crazed, the Queer from New York City Mr. Williams' poetry set to music (rehearsal shot) The Road to Paradise from Bennington College, Bennington VT based on Mr. Williams' diaries and memoirs The Parade from Minneapolis, MN - Shakespeare on the Cape world premiere of the autobiographical play The Glass Menagerie from Provincetown, MA the senior class play, written in the P-town dunes In 2007 the focus will be on later Williams -- as seen in perspective from his avant garde and non-realistic roots in the Provincetown arts community. The Festival will present world premieres of texts written by Tennessee Williams previously unpublished and unknown. 2007 presentations are not limited to texts from after 1971 (when Williams turned 60), but will also include Williams' writing from other periods re-examined within the context of the later work. If you, or your group, would like to be considered for participation -- or if you know of excellent Williams productions that should be invited click here to e-mail