Tag Archives: Glass Menagerie

“Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there’s nothing else …” — Tennessee Williams

Posted on March 26, 2025 by sheila

Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) was born on this day in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911. Will you do a total stranger the kindness of reading his verse? Thank you! Thomas Lanier Williams — Tennessee Williams, letter to editor Harriet Monroe, … Continue reading →

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“Every choice I’ve ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.” — Peter Brook

Posted on March 21, 2025 by sheila

“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.” … Continue reading →

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Snapshots

Posted on November 6, 2013 by sheila

— 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 →

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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

Posted on April 11, 2013 by sheila

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 →

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One of the reasons I love John Lahr

Posted on April 4, 2010 by sheila

… 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 →

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Today in history: March 26, 1914

Posted on March 26, 2010 by sheila

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 →

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The Books: “Laurette. The Intimate Biography of Laurette Taylor By Her Daughter” (Marguerite Courtney)

Posted on November 4, 2008 by sheila

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 →

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Happy Birthday, Tennessee Williams

Posted on March 26, 2008 by sheila

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 →

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The Books: “The Glass Menagerie” (Tennessee Williams)

Posted on October 8, 2005 by sheila

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 →

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Compare and Contrast

Posted on March 24, 2005 by sheila

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 →

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