Tag: Tennessee Williams
Sterling Playmakers’ ‘Streetcar Named Desire’: a long ride worth taking
Though the show's pacing is slow, Eileen Marshall as Blanche DuBois does justice to one of American theater’s greatest, most layered characters. By BOB ASHBY
A commendable ‘Glass Menagerie’ at cozy NOVA Nightsky Theater
Director Hannah Ruth Wellons delivers on the play’s nostalgic tone and heart-wrenching moments, balanced with humor and a playful family dynamic. By CHAD KINSMAN
‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Rep Stage asks what it means to...
The excellent actors resonate with the memory play's rhythm and music.
Rep Stage looks at ‘Glass Menagerie’ through a mixed-race lens
Director Joseph Ritsch and Dramaturg Khalid Long on how race, queerness, gender, and ability intersect in Tennessee Williams's classic.
Tennessee Williams’s ‘Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers’ returns
Spooky Action Theater’s utterly charming production of The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers—a recently discovered early work by Tennessee Williams directed for...
Family-friendly Tennessee Williams puppet show pops up for the holidays
After two sell-out previews and a spectacular run at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers pops up...
Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at Zemfira Stage
As you're spending January shivering against these sub-freezing wind-chills and bracing yourselves for the next bombogenesis, I strongly urge you to seek refuge in...
Review: ‘Sotto Voce’ at Theater J
In Sotto Voce, Theater J’s first production of the 2017-18 season, the characters don’t actually lower their voices.
Instead, they speak in whispers, and not...
Review: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Parlor Room Theater
Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is an American theater classic. At its center a story about a shattered family, the show is timeless in...
Review: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at The Belasco Theatre
This is the play that introduced me to the writings of Tennessee Williams long ago, in 1945! That was the original production at the...
Review: ‘The Miss Firecracker Contest’ at South Camden Theatre Company
Beth Henley stocks her plays with characters that are distinctive and outlandish, right down to their names. The Miss Firecracker Contest, her wily and...
Review: ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ at Old Academy Players
What did happen to Sebastian last summer?
This sounds like a murder mystery, right? But if Tennessee Williams writes the mystery, one can be certain...
Review: ‘The Present’ at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
In the beginning there was a play by Anton Chekov that was simply called "a long play without a title". He'd written a first...
Interview: Jennifer Childs and Monica Stephenson Bring Holiday Cheer to Philadelphia...
1812 Productions’ Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder Jennifer Childs teamed up again with musician Monica Stephenson, a long-time friend and former colleague at the...
Beth Hylton, Carl Schurr, and Dawn Ursula on Starring in Everyman’s...
The Great American Rep's At Everyman Theatre has received critical acclaim from local critics. Beth Hylton, Carl Schuur, and Dawn Ursula talk about their...
Review: ‘A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur’ at South Camden Theatre...
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur is one of Tennessee Williams’ lesser-known plays. First staged in 1978, a few decades after his biggest successes,...
Review: The Great American Rep: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ at Everyman...
As the centerpiece of its 25th Anniversary Season, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre has taken on the daunting task of mounting what are arguably the two greatest...
Review: The Great American Rep: ‘Death of a Salesman’ at Everyman...
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of its founding, Everyman Theatre is closing out its 2015-2016 season by doing something really special. After an...
Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at Round House Theatre
Southern jazz fills the theatre as the warm lights come up on a bedroom. A mix of yellow and pink shines through the windows...
Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at Compass Rose Theater
Compass Rose Theater delivers an intense rendition of Tennessee Williams’ classic play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a southern drama set in the 1950s. Williams...