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Tag: Tennessee Williams

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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Walnut Street Theatre): A thinking play

Kathryn Osenlund February 24, 2023 No Comments

Introducing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as “a thinking play,” Tennessee Williams wrote to his audiences: “I want to go on talking to you…

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THE GLASS MENAGERIE at Arden Theatre Company.
Theater

THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Arden): Revisiting the famed memory play

Kathryn Osenlund October 14, 2022 No Comments

Tennessee Williams had been writing since he was a teenager, and by the time he was 30 years old he was getting nowhere. His early…

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Theater

Watching THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (OUT-CRY) by Tennessee Williams

Kathryn Osenlund September 15, 2022 No Comments

This play-within-a-play about a play takes place on the Bluver Theatre’s tiny stage, brightly lit, although called dim by the characters. The audience,  up close…

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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Theater

TWO-CHARACTER PLAY (IRC): 2022 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 9, 2022 1 Comment

Nobody writes crazy, despairing, desperate women like Tennessee Williams

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Podcasts Reviews Theater

Pulitzer Podcast Review: STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Arden

Phindie Podcasts February 3, 2022 No Comments

Chosen by Committee podcasters Josh Herren and Christopher Munden tear themselves from the Pulitzer bookcase to see a live Pulitzer-winning show.

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Podcasts Theater

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (1955): Chosen by Committee Episode 33

Phindie Podcasts December 13, 2020 No Comments

In 1955, playwright Tennessee Williams won his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

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Podcasts Theater

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1948): Chosen by Committee episode 27

Phindie Podcasts October 13, 2020 No Comments

You may have of this one.

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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review (2nd)

Margaret Darby September 21, 2018 No Comments

Another review of IRC’s 2018 Fringe piece.

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Fringe Festival Theater

ECCENTRICITIES and random notes on Tennessee Williams

Kathryn Osenlund September 14, 2018 No Comments

Tennessee Williams slept with my boyfriend’s father. I love saying that at a party.

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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2018 Fringe review

Toby Zinman September 7, 2018 No Comments

ECCENTRICITIES is lush, loquacious and very typical Tennessee Williams: lonely, sex-starved women, men struggling against overbearing mothers, desperation everywhere.

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Features Theater

Kaepernick on a Hot Tin Roof? Did self-censorship constrain Tennessee Williams?

Bruce S. Ticker October 18, 2016 No Comments

Six decades separate the Broadway debut of Tennessee Williams’ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF in 1955 from Colin Kaepernick’s boycott of the National Anthem

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Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Deep Blue Theatre Collective): 2016 Fringe review 20.2

Lisa Panzer September 12, 2016 No Comments

Upon entering the MAAS Space, with it’s exposed beams and brick walls, and wooden floors, the very sensation of being engulfed in 1940s New Orleans…

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Features Interviews Theater

Hearing voices at 3 AM: Interview with POST HASTE playwright Frank E. Reilly

Henrik Eger June 28, 2015 No Comments

Frank E. Reilly’s latest play, POST HASTE, just finished its world premiere run at the Hedgerow Theatre. Henrik Eger interviewed the playwright about his works.

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Literature Reviews Theater

[book review] FOLLIES OF GOD (James Grissom): Validating Tennessee Williams

Debra Miller March 3, 2015 No Comments

“The greatness of . . . people lies in how they got from their squalor—real or perceived—and became artists.”

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Reviews Theater

STAIRS TO THE ROOF (EgoPo and Rowan): An absurdist take on a fledgling work by Tennessee Williams

Debra Miller February 14, 2015 2 Comments

This is Tennessee Williams as you’ve never seen him, filled with youthful ardor, idealism, and scorn, and well suited for showcasing a young ensemble of emerging talents.

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Previews Theater

IRC’s presents some Durang classics

Christopher Munden November 1, 2014 No Comments

Featuring spoofs of American theater luminaries, IRC’s 2008 hit A STREETCAR NAMED DURANG returns this month for a brief seven-show run.

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Photo by Kyle Cassidy
Reviews Theater

THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Commonwealth Classic): Through the glass darkly

Christopher Munden August 13, 2014 No Comments

Commonwealth’s production draws the curtain on enough of the play’s window into regret to reveal the melancholy brilliance of THE GLASS MENAGERIE.

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And Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Queens Blue Suede Fringe review
Fringe Festival Fringe reviews Reviews Theater

[27] AND TELL SAD STORIES OF THE DEATHS OF QUEENS (Blue Suede Productions): Fringe review

Kathryn Osenlund September 11, 2013 No Comments

Two young guys who moved here from Tennessee in 2012 started their own theater company, which they named Blue Suede Productions as a tribute to…

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Eric Scotolati
Reviews Theater

Another take on GLASS: SHATTERED (Renegade)

Jessica Foley June 15, 2013 No Comments

Pacified by a pre-show serving of *Little Baby’s* ice cream, the Renegade Company’s audience sat in a cozy room with broken victrola records scattered on…

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photo by Daniel Kontz
60-Second Review Reviews Theater

GLASS: SHATTERED (Renegade): 60-second review

Christopher Munden June 9, 2013 2 Comments

Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is described as a “memory play”: its plot an extended flashback, its theatrical pretense laid bare. GLASS: SHATTERED, Michael Durkin’s…

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