Tennessee Williams

She Laughs Alone: 12 Things About Mom

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Ted Koehler, Louis Prima, Mother's Day, Cinderella, Mothers and Sons, Johnny Mercer, Tennessee Williams, Harold Arlen, Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Great American Songbook, Video, Parents News

A neighbor once came knocking with daughter it tow, asking mom if said daughter could come in and watch my dad write a song. Mom explained, "He does most of his writing on the john."

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A Streetcar to Remember

Landon Jones | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Broadway, Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blair Underwood, Entertainment News

A full week has gone by since I saw the premiere of Emily Mann's new production of A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway, and I can't get it out of my ...

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Two by Tennessee: Streetcar Named Desire at the Broadhurst, and In Masks Outrageous and Austere at Culture Project

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Lenwood-Harris, Streetcar Named Desire, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Shirley Knight, Nicole Ari Parker, Alison Fraser, Tennessee Williams, Masks Outrageous and Austere, Emily Mann, Connor Buckley, Blair Underwood, David Schweizer, Theatre, Culture News

Two Tennessee Williams plays in New York City, the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Broadhurst on Broadway, and the world premiere of his last experimental work, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, at Culture Project, may cause a laugh riot.

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The World Premiere Of Tennessee Williams' Final Play

David Finkle | Posted 04.17.2012

When you sit through something as ludicrous as Williams's last play -- or so we're led to believe of a manuscript cobbled together by other peddler-meddlers -- you spend much of the time wondering whom the roiling cauldron of picked-over Williams obsessions serves.

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This Is Your Life

George Heymont | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Film, Theatre Rhinoceros, Blake Edwards, Ryan Tasker, John Fisher, S.O.B., Tennessee Williams, Alexandra Creighton, The Two-Character Play, Julie Andrews, Video, Arts News

Aspiring writers are often encouraged to "write what you know." But when dramatists and screenwriters reach a certain level of success, they sometimes opt to vent their professional frustrations in a creative work that bears an uncanny resemblance to their personal lives.

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Tennessee Williams' Baby Doll at the Elephant Theatre Company in Hollywood

James Scarborough | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Lulu Brud, Joel Daavid, Tennessee Williams, Ronnie Marmo, Tony Gatto, Baby Doll Theatre, Elephant Theatre Company, Play Baby Doll, Los Angeles Theatre, Los Angeles News

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PHOTOS: Haiku Reviews: Minimalism, Realism and 'The Glass Menagerie'

Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Peter Frank, Kes Zapkus, Marc Trujillo, George Heymont, Tennessee Williams, Haiku Reviews, Tino Zago, The Secret Garden, Harvey Quaytman, Three Sisters, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a biweekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the tradit...

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Have Yourself a Less Than Merry Christmas

George Heymont | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Bill English, Maggie Mason, Period of Adjustment, Mackenzie Meehan, Tennessee Williams, Sfplayhouse, Patrick Alparone, Johnny Moreno, Holidays, Christmas, Video, Arts News

Many children go to bed on Christmas Eve dreaming that Santa Claus will come down their chimney (even if they live in an apartment building) and leave presents for them under the family's Christmas tree. As most adults know, that just isn't how things work.

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Blow Out Your Candles, Laura

George Heymont | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Laurette Taylor, Jasson Minadakis, Nicholas Pelczar, The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams, Sherman Fracher, Marin Theatre Company, Craig Marker, Anna Bullard, Video, Arts News

In preparing for the Marin Theatre Company's production of The Glass Menagerie, director Jasson Minadakis was determined to take a much different approach to the text.

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'Pussy On The House' Spoofs Tennessee Williams

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Chicago Kickstarters, Can They Kick It, Video, David Cerda, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chicago Theatre, Kickstarter, Theatre, My Chicago, Tennessee Williams, Pussy on the House Chicago, Hell in a Handbag, Pussy on the House, Classic Movies, Chicago News

Tennessee Williams' 1955 play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" packs a whole lot of passion and drama into its Pulitzer-winning dialogue -- so it should come a...

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7 Unusual Writer Deaths

Posted 10.13.2011

Read More: Li Bai, Virginia Woolf, Books News, Weird Writer Deaths, Dead Writers, Weird Author Deaths, Tennessee Williams, Mark Twain, Books News

The two most written about themes in fiction? Love and death. Yet however strange the circumstances that writers may invent, real circumstances of dea...

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Hamptons Journal: Tennessee Williams at 100, Dick Cavett at _____

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Tennessee Williams, Eli Wallach, Justine Lupe, Vincent Piazza, Harris Yulin, Mercedes Ruehl, Edward Albee, Dick Cavett, Guild Hall in East Hampton., Entertainment News

The weekend had audiences waxing wistful about the good old days of television talk shows when you could catch a witty hour-and-a-half interview with a listen-worthy celebrity.

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Authors In Bathing Suits: Who Knew They Were This Hot?

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Authors in Bathing Suits, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Anne Sexton, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

We don’t know about you, but now that it’s officially summertime, we want to spend as much time in our bathing suits as humanly possible, and so, ...

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New Orleans: Ground Zero in the Cultural War

Brian Ross | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Alabama, Birmingham, Emeril Lagasse, George W. Bush, Bureaucracy, CULTURAL WARFARE, Tennessee Williams, Culture, Ideologies, Hurricane Katrina, Ground Zero, Harry Connick Jr., Jazz, Wynton Marsalis, Living, Hurricane, Big Insurance, Louisiana, Politics, American Values, Fema, 9th Ward, Barack Obama, William Faulkner, Democrats, Louis Armstrong, Bryant Gumbel, Federal Government, Birthers, Republicans, Flood, New Orleans-Louisiana, Katrina, Politics News

The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. New Orleans lives them. The birthplace of jazz. The true birthplace of Rock-and-Ro...

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Bombs, Comics And Sartre: Haiku Reviews

Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: D*Face, Peter Frank, Theatre, Adolf Fleischmann, Tennessee Williams, George Heymont, Film, Jean-Paul Sartre, Painting, Haiku Reviews, San Francisco, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles, New York, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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Theater Review: Elusive Beauty of the Nightingale

Marc Porter Zasada | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Theater Review, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Tennessee Williams, April 2011, Los Angeles, A Noise Within, Deborah Puette, Jason Dechert, Damaso Rodriguez, Los Angeles News

Nightingale is not quite a romance and not quite a tragedy -- more a mystery of the human heart. Director Dámaso Rodriguez has captured the elusive beauty of this Tennessee Willliams' classic.

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Famous Authors And Their Typewriters

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, George Orwell, Typewriters, Sylvia Plath, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Authors Typewriters, Marlon Brando, Bob Dylan, Books News

There’s something magical about catching a glimpse of one of your favorite authors at work – even a photo of the epic event can send an anxious th...

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New Orleans' Tennessee Williams Festival Celebrates His 100th Birthday

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Zoe Caldwell, Tennessee Williams, Baby Doll, Shirley Knight, Rex Reed, Carroll Baker, A Streetcar Named Desire, Travel News

"Tennessee loved his women," Rex Reed said of Tennessee Williams who was born 100 years ago today. "He didn't want to sleep with them, he exalted them in a completely different way." Legendary actresses who brought Williams' characters to life held court with Reed in a panel opening the 25th annual Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival.

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Theater: Geoffrey Rush In "Madman," Adam Rapp's "Hallway," Shaky Tennessee and Broadway Songs of 1921

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The King's Speech, Adam Rapp, Small Craft Warnings, The Hallway Trilogy, Theater, Tennessee Williams, Bobby Steggert, Scott Siegel, Broadway Musicals of 1921, Gogol, Yank!, Geoffrey Rush, Entertainment News

DIARY OF A MADMAN *** out of **** BAM It's fitting that actor Geoffrey Rush should be cavorting onstage in The Diary Of A Madman just as his latest f...

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What Is Wrong With the Arts?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

The arts are in a parlous state, but contrary to popular belief, it isn't the fault of unions or the absence of arts education in our schools. The arts are in trouble because there is simply not enough excellent art being created.

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Tennessee Williams Remembered at the 92nd Street Y

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Olympia Dukakis, Tennessee Williams, Caroll Baker, Jessica Lange, Zoe Kazan, Alec Baldwin, Rip Torn, Thomas Keith, Marian Seldes, Geraldine Page, Sylvia Miles, Karl Malden, David Kaplan, Eli Wallach, Elia Kazan, Angelica Torn, Entertainment News

In the midst of the Oscar season tumult, it is reassuring to think of our most poetic and prolific American playwright Tennessee Williams as the autho...

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Theater Reviews: "Nixon In China!" Olympia Dukakis On A Milkcart! Bloody Ethan Hawke! More!

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Musical, Metropolitan Opera, Roundabout, Nixon in China, Olympia Dukakis, Play, Opera, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, John Adams, Broadway, Tony Award, Tennessee Williams, Ethan Hawke, Entertainment News

Here's a roundup of my theater-going for the past week covering all the new shows. I see The Whipping Man this weekend but had to miss AR Gurney's lat...

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James Franco Joins Nicole Kidman On Broadway This Fall

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Franco and Nicole Kidman on Broadway, James Franco, James Franco on Broadway, James Franco Performance Art, Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway, Nicole Kidman on Broadway, Tennessee Williams, Arts News

James Franco, an Oscar nominee for Best Actor in 127 Hours, and Nicole Kidman, who is also up for a Oscar for Best Actress in Rabbit Hole, will take a...

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DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rup Torn, Al Pacino, Los Angeles Lakers, Mad Max, Tennessee Williams, Johnny Carson, Charles Kuralt, Slings and Arrows, Hbo, Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone, Alien, James Cameron, Baz Luhrmann, Poldark, Back to the Future, Entertainment News

TONIGHT -- 4 DECADES OF THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON ($119.99; Respond 2 Entertainment) -- Okay, first the content. Johnny Carson is a le...

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Tennessee Williams Ventures South of Market

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Macbeth, Peter Matthews, Boxcar Theatre, Big Daddy, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois, Amanda Wingfield, Nick A. Olivero, Arts News

This past season, as most nonprofits were trimming their sails due to the sagging economy, Boxcar Theatre fearlessly staged a whopping 15 productions!

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