Women in Mind: The Muses That Moved Williams and Shakespeare
Tina Packer tracks the Bard’s growth via his female characters, and James Grissom tracks down divas who alternately inspired and frustrated Williams.
All Stories About Tennessee Williams
In Conversation: Tony Kushner and John Lahr Talk Tennessee Williams
Tony Kushner talks with John Lahr about his new biography of Tennessee Williams, and what the playwright’s declining later years say about his art—and about America.
Tennessee Williams’s Anticlimax
John Lahr’s new biography, ‘Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh,’ sheds an admiring but unflinching light on the playwright’s career and later works, as well as his life and relationships.
‘The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan’ Keeps the Dialogue Going
Among other things, a new collection of letters from the celebrated and complicated American director show his tough-love devotion to new work and writers.
Eddie Dowling Recalls the Fragile Intensity of the First ‘Glass Menagerie’
The original Tom Wingfield in the 1945 premiere of Tennessee Williams’s breakthrough play recalls its rocky, bittersweet road to the Broadway stage.
From Broadway to Gorky Street (Or, What Would Lenin Say?)
American drama on the Soviet stage.
Theatre Bookshelf
Alfred Jarry, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Judson Dance Theater, and more.
