Showing posts with label Tennessee Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tennessee Williams. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Upcoming: Discussion of Tennessee Williams at the Cactus Cafe, University of Texas, July 25
Found on-line at KUT.org:
Views & Brews Conversations at the Cactus Cafe: Tennessee Williams
Mon, Jul 25, 2011
Doors: 5:30pm
Event Time: 6:00pm
FREE EVENT
KUT’s Views and Brews: Conversations at the Cactus Cafe talks Tennessee Williams this Monday evening at 6 and you’re invited join in on the discussion surrounding the life of America’s most influential 20th century playwright. Whether you love the theater or just great conversation we hope to see you Monday night at 6 as KUT’s Views and Brews talks Tennessee Williams. It’s free and open to the public and seating is limited so get there early.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Interview: Tony Kushner Talks about Tennessee Williams, Ransom Center Blog
Published at Cultural Compass, the blog of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, May 19:
Q and A: Playwright Tony Kushner speaks about influence of Tennessee Williams
How has Tennessee Williams influenced you?
Profoundly. Of the three major, post-war American playwrights—Williams, Miller, and O’Neill—I had the easiest time connecting to Tennessee when I was young and starting to think about being a playwright. When I read A Streetcar Named Desire for the first time, I fell in love with Tennessee because he was a southern writer and I grew up in Louisiana. The voice was very familiar and powerful to me because he was gay. Even though there were no overtly gay characters, you could feel issues of sexuality that seemed of great moment to me right under the surface of the plays.
Williams, much more than any other American playwright, succeeded in finding a poetic diction for the stage. I immediately identified with that ambition, with the desire to write language that simultaneously sounded like spontaneous utterance but also had the voluptuousness in daring, peculiarity, quirkiness, and unapologetic imagistic density of poetry. Also because it is a written language, the tension between artifice, naturalism, and spontaneity in art has always been exciting to me. I felt that I experienced it really viscerally in terms of American playwriting first in Tennessee’s writing.
[Image: Tony Kushner meets students during a 2006 visit to the Harry Ransom Center ]
Monday, February 28, 2011
Upcoming: John Lahr Lectures on Tennessee Williams and the Out-crying Heart, Harry Ransom Center, UT, March 3
Found on-line:
Tennessee Williams and the Out-Crying Heart
a lecture by New Yorker drama critic John Lahr
March 3, 7 p.m.
Homer Rainey Hall music building, University of Texas
21st St., east of Guadalupe and east of Ransom Center (click for map)
no charge for admission
Lahr will discuss the origins of Tennessee Williams's dramatic voice and how it changed over the decades.
Members of the Harry Ransom Center receive complimentary parking and priority entry at this program. Doors open at 6:20 p.m. for members and at 6:30 p.m. for the general public. Members must present their membership cards for priority entrance; one seat per membership card. Members arriving after 6:30 p.m. will join the general queue. Complimentary parking for members is available at the University Co-op garage at 23rd and San Antonio streets.
The Harry Ransom Lectures honor former University of Texas Chancellor Harry Huntt Ransom and highlight the Ransom Center’s vital role in the University’s intellectual and cultural life. The program brings internationally renowned writers, artists, and scholars to Austin for public events and conversations with University students. The lectures are made possible by the generous support of the University Co-op.
Additional support was provided by the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Upcoming: Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, Different Stages at the City Theatre, March 18 - April 9
Found on-line:
presents
Tennessee Williams'
Night of the Iguana
March 18 – April 9
City Theater, 3823 Airport Suite D ( map)
Thursdays – Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
Pick your Price Tickets: $15, $20, $25, $30
Reservations: 474–8497
Different Stages continues its 2010 – 2011 season with The Night of the Iguana. This Tony-Award-winning play by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Tennessee Williams is a provocative exploration of human struggle and passion — full of intense drama, biting wit, and sexual tension. Defrocked priest T. Lawrence Shannon now scrapes out a living as a tour guide in Mexico. On the verge of a collapse, he abducts his tour group to a crumbling seaside hotel on the edge of the jungle. As a fierce tropical storm rolls in, Shannon must wrestle with the passions of the women around him – the wrath of a Texas school teacher, the advances of a lustful teenager and the jealousies of the widowed hotel owner – as he seeks solace with a new arrival, a gentle spinster traveling with her grandfather – the world's oldest living poet.
Directed by Norman Blumensaadt (The Carpetbagger's Children), The Night of the Iguana features Tom Chamberlain (The Goat or Who is Sylvia?) as the Rev. Shannon, Content Love Knowles (Murder Mystery Ballad) as the hotel proprietor Maxine and Rebecca Robinson (Circle, Mirror, Transformation) as the artist Hannah Jelkes. Also In the cast are Donald Bayne (The Duck Variations) as the poet Jonathan Coffin, Karen Jambon (Mary Stuart) as the Music Teacher Judith Fellowes and Chloe Edmundson (The Skin of Our Teeth) as her music student Charlotte Goodall. Rounding out the cast are Brian Brown, Ben McLemore, Scott Friedman, Phoebe Greene, Carrie Stephens, Justin Smith, Tony Salinas, Carlos Saenz and Ashley McNerney.
On Saturday March 26 join the cast for a Tennessee Williams Birthday Party, in honor of the Williams centennial.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Upcoming: Menagerie on a Hot Tin Streetcar by Rob Nash, staged reading at the Vortex Repertory, December 19
Found at Rob Faubion's AustinOnStage.com:
Rob Nash Returns to VORTEX Theatre
For his next project, award-winning writer and performer Rob Nash has put the plays of Tennessee Williams through a comedic blender to create the ensemble mash-up, Menagerie on a Hot Tin Streetcar. The new work will receive its debut staged reading on Sunday,
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December 19th, at the VORTEX Theatre.
More than just a parody - although Nash promised plenty of that - the playwright has tried to create a dramatic Tennessee Williams-esque comedy/drama as his 21st original work. Gay Tombrickly wants his "beard" wife Maggie Mae to stop demanding he give her a child, as this would require sleeping with her. Tombrickly likes his women like he likes his coffee - and he hates coffee. Blanchymanda drinks and hallucinates while trying to marry her cripple half-wit daughter Stellaura off to gentleman caller, while her husband Stangoop tries to inherit the Night Iguana Shoe Store from his transgendered mother/father Big Mama Daddy.
Writing and performing his own brand of one-man shows at The VORTEX since 1995, Nash has performed his works across the United States. His award-winning Holy Cross Sucks! premiered Off-Broadway in September 2005 to rave reviews, earning a "Top 10 Broadway and Off-Broadway Shows of 2005" recognition by Time Out New York.
His solo theatre and standup comedy have also been seen internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Montreal Comedy Arts Festival, and Atlantis Cruise Lines. Nash has been featured on Comedy Central, VH1 and Q Television.
The one-night performance begins at 6:30 p.m., and admission is free - although donations will be accepted. The VORTEX Theatre is located at 2307 Manor Road. For more information, call (512) 478-LAVA (5282) or visit www.VortexRep.org.
(Rob Nash photo by Kenneth Gall)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Upcoming: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Tex-Arts, Lakeway, February 26 - March 14
Click for ALT review, March 5
UPDATE: Review by Barry Pineo for the Austin Chronicle, March 4
Found on-line:
Tex-Arts' professional program presents
Tennessee Williams'
The Glass Menagerie
with Babs George and Jude Hickey
directed by Michael Costello
February 26 - March 14
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
Kam & James Morris Theatre
2300 Lohmann's Spur, Lakeway
Tickets $30 - $56 through NowPlayingAustin.com
The Glass Menagerie is one of America’s great plays, written by Tennessee Williams and performed as part of TexARTS’ professional Off-Broadway Series. The semi-autobiographical play was originally written for MGM. It premiered in Chicago in 1944 and in 1945 won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
The Glass Menagerie was Williams's first successful play. He went on to become one of America's most highly regarded playwrights. Williams (whose real name was Thomas) largely reflects himself in the main narrator character of Tom, who recounts his life with his mother Amanda and his sickly, supposedly mentally ill sister. William's real-life sister Rose is transformed into Tom's sister Laura, whose nickname in the play is "Blue Roses," a result of an unfortunate bout of pleurosis as a high school student. This union production integrates some of the region’s finest talent and brings one of our greatest American plays and playwrights to life with depth and quality.
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