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“Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there’s nothing else …” Happy Birthday, Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) was born on this day in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911. I love this early note from Tennessee Williams because it already incorporates his most famous line, from Streetcar Named Desire. Will you do a total … Continue reading
Posted in Books, On This Day, Theatre, writers
Tagged Elia Kazan, Glass Menagerie, Laurette Taylor, Marlon Brando, Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
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Snapshots
— Busy busy. Busy writing, busy getting over a killer flu which laid me flat for five straight days. Dammit. I have spent the time sleeping, writing, binge-watching Supernatural (I’m only on season 3, don’t spoil it), and reading Victor … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Theatre
Tagged family, Glass Menagerie, Russia, snapshots, Supernatural, Tennessee Williams, Victor Serge
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The Books: The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town, edited by Lillian Ross; ‘The Celluloid Brassiere’, by Andy Logan
Next up on the essays shelf: The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town (Modern Library Paperbacks) is a collection of “The Talk of the Town” pieces in The New Yorker, grouped by decade, which is a … Continue reading
One of the reasons I love John Lahr
… son of Bert Lahr, as well as long-time theatre critic for The New Yorker (his profiles have been compiled into a wonderful book: Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles) is because of paragraphs like this one, in his recent … Continue reading
Today in history: March 26, 1914
Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. Will you do a total stranger the kindness of reading his verse? Thank you! Thomas Lanier Williams — Tennessee Williams, letter to editor Harriet Monroe, March 11, 1933 “You’re always … Continue reading
The Books: “Laurette. The Intimate Biography of Laurette Taylor By Her Daughter” (Marguerite Courtney)
Daily Book Excerpt: Entertainment Biography/Memoir Laurette: The Intimate Biography of Laurette Taylor, by Marguerite Courtney Laurette Taylor had a long (and rather checkered) stage career – Broadway and regional – starting in 1909 – a career where her really big … Continue reading
Posted in Actors, Books
Tagged entertainment biography, Glass Menagerie, Laurette Taylor, Sarah Bernhardt, Tennessee Williams
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Happy Birthday, Tennessee Williams
Will you do a total stranger the kindness of reading his verse? Thank you! Thomas Lanier Williams — Tennessee Williams, letter to editor Harriet Monroe, March 11, 1933 “You’re always having to compete with yourself. They always say, ‘It’s not … Continue reading
The Books: “The Glass Menagerie” (Tennessee Williams)
Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next on my script shelf: Next Tennessee Williams play? His first success, the play that made him a star: The Glass Menagerie. After the flop of his first play, Battle of Angels, Williams went … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Theatre
Tagged Glass Menagerie, Laurette Taylor, scripts, Tennessee Williams
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Compare and Contrast
To go along with my long post below about the current revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, check out this doozy of a review of the other revival going on right now – of Glass Menagerie starring Jessica Lange … Continue reading
“I told him I had pleurosis. And he thought I said ‘Blue Roses’.”
Will news like this make that scene in Glass Menagerie obsolete?? Continue reading