March 17, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: The productive, but complicated, relationship between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan Among the material in the Ransom Center’s current exhibition, Becoming Tennessee Williams, is a picture of Tennessee Williams holding a photograph of Elia Kazan. Kazan was an American film and theater director, producer, screenwriter, and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio. In his theatrical career, Kazan became one of the… read more
March 15, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: Stella Adler’s notes on Tennessee Williams’s ‘The Glass Menagerie’ Stella Adler was considered one of this country’s most important teachers of the principles of acting, character analysis, and script analysis. Adler began acting when she was just four years old, alongside her parents, Jacob and Sara Adler, in a production of the Yiddish play Broken Hearts by Z. Libin.… read more
March 10, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: Marlon Brando’s little black book “On bended knee I beg you to return this. I lost eight others already and if I lose this I’ll just drop dead!” These are Marlon Brando’s words inscribed on the flyleaf of his address book, which was later dropped on the stage of the Barrymore Theatre in New York… read more
