Tennessee Williams

Lucas Hnath Fixates on Disney; Williams's Notebook of Trigorin Redecorates Chekhov

The Notebook of Trigorin

15 American Plays It'd Be Great to See Revived

The unusual suspects

Susan Tyrrell Told Me About Dating Herve Villechaize!

In 1983, I interviewed brilliant actress and fiery personality Susan Tyrrell--who recently died--for a staggering Details cover story. The woman was not capable of lying, and since I'm not either, we bonded big time, like thieves in a henhouse. Here's more of the amazing stuff she said, which I'm ... More >>

A Desegregated 'Streetcar'

The Tennessee Williams classic gets a multiethnic Broadway staging

In Masks Outrageous and Austere: An Attempted Rescue

The Culture Project mounts a late Tennessee Williams piece

This Week in The Voice: Mitt Romney, American Parasite

This week in the Voice, out today: Pete Kotz examines Mitt Romney's brand of capitalism, and finds that it represents everything you hate about America's economic system: "His specialty was flipping companies -- or what he often calls 'creative destruction.' It's the age-old theory that the new must ... More >>

Tennessee Williams's Final Full-Length Play Is Staged

And I was there for the opening last night! It's In Masks Outrageous and Austere, which Tennessee worked on from 1978 to 1983 (the year he died), providing multiple, unfinished drafts which have been cobbled together for this sleek, theatrical production. Shirley Knight plays a faded, decadent bel ... More >>

Stanley Kowalski Has Dropped The "Kowalski"

As you know, Tennessee Williams' culture-clash classic A Streecar Named Desire is coming to Broadway any moment now, featuring a cast of color. Well, at a Drama Desk panel discussion at Sardi's the other day, Blair Underwood--who's playing the old Brando role, the brutish Stanley Kowalski--said he' ... More >>

Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws Goes to Hell at La MaMa

Everett Quinton and Mink Stole in a Tennessee Williams rarity

New Orleans' Gay Ball Culture, For the Record, in The Sons of Tennessee Williams

The Pretty Trap: The Beta Menagerie

An early, test version of the Tennessee Williams classic

One Arm Hustles In

The New Group adapts a Tennessee Williams rarity

LOSIN' IT

Tennessee Williams’s One Arm

All My Children: My Favorite Characters

​It's been canceled! I haven't watched the show in about 25 years, but I still never thought this day would come any more than I expected stretch marks! (One Life To Live too! It's the end of an era!) But at least the horrifying termination has prompted me to snuggle up with memories of my ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark--Pulitzer Winner Lynn Nottage Returns With a New Play

Plus Derek Jacobi, the Shaggs, and other spring theater picks

Small Craft Warnings--Tennessee Williams's Bar Menagerie

Austin Pendleton helms a late play

Vieux Carre Gives Tennessee Williams No (French) Quarter

The Wooster Group goes south

Finally, Some Out of the Closet Tennessee Williams Characters

BroadwayWorld.com​ Tennessee Williams' 100th birthday approacheth, which is why there's suddenly a trio of revivals of obscure mid-to-late period Williams plays. On the heels of the ambient Vieux Carre (1978) and the florid The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963), I just saw Small Cr ... More >>

Baby Doll

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore Gets a Rare Revival

Tennessee Williams heads off to Sicily

Green Eyes Checks In

A Tennessee Williams obscurity gets staged at the Hudson Hotel

Senso

Target Margin's The Really Big Once

Trying to reunite Williams and Kazan

SECOND CHANCES

Target Margin aims to turn a failure into a success

The Glass Menagerie, The Fairy Queen, and A Cool Dip—Productions or Battlefields?

A Buried Tennessee Williams Screenplay, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Johnny Depp Remembers Heath--And Other Oscar Treats

Showstoppers and rip-offs in the blowsy movie musical. Plus: Paper's Nightlife Awards

Boom

Baby Doll

A Streetcar Named Desire

Young Writers Take Notes In Williams's Vieux Carré and Alexander's New 10 Things

This Week's Voice: Jane's Addiction, 'Muslim Voices,' Francis Ford Coppola, The Hangover, Exit Art's 'Negritude,' The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, and More

Jared GruenwaldTropicalia in Furs In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Charly Wilder tracks down an East Village storehouse of Brazilian psychedelia at Tropicalia in Furs. Phil Freeman on the Jane's Addiction reunion and three-CD, one-DVD box set, A Cabinet of Curiosities. Andy Beta talks ... More >>

Ten Blocks on the Camino Real and Soul of Shaolin

Boxers and kung fu warriors hit our stages

Out Cry, Tennessee William's Failed Comeback

The Best Bad Movies of All Time

Conor McPherson and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Chase Their Tales

Two playwrights set stories in motion, but don't move them very far

Clip Job: Tennessee Williams: Too Strong For Broadway's Duodenum

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Prowls

But Dead Man's Cell Phone and Parlour Song ring hollow

Clip Job: Tennessee Williams' 'Orpheus Descending'

Comforter Zone

Mattress springs eternal: 50 years of who beds whom, from Tea and Sympathy to Tim Miller

Rack Focus

Where Ire Lands

The talking cure, Irish style: Is its hour up?

Five Bits of Williams Make an Evening That's Both Too Much and Not Enough

A Formalist Affair

Will audiences blanche?

Director Ivo Van Hove drives a peculiar 'Streetcar'

North of Tennessee

Private Prisons

The Hothouse

The atrocity that inspired Tennessee Williams's Not About Nightingales

Women's Rites