Tennessee Williams

On the 108th birthday of the award-winning playwright, we look at his contentious relationship with drinking.

Elevator Repair Service, the company behind the brilliant ‘Gatz,’ bring us another take on a classic, ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ But the satire and intention feel blunted.

Tennessee Williams’ ‘Summer and Smoke,’ written the same year as ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ is often overlooked. A new production is a beautifully acted and directed corrective.

The actress Madison Ferris commands Sam Gold’s brilliant production of ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ also starring Sally Field, Joe Mantello, and Finn Wittrock.

The author of ‘The Glass Menagerie’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ was first saved and then betrayed by his art in a life every bit as flamboyant and wayward as his plays.

The two longtime pals met in 1973 as Juilliard students and were best friends up until Reeve's death in 2004. In his autobiography 'Still Me,' Reeves recounted how Williams helped save his life.

In 1949, the director Elia Kazan wrote a letter urging his friend Tennessee Williams to return to the US, where his misfit status was the wellspring of his art.