May 26, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: Tennessee Williams tinkers with his Southern image In 1938, Tennessee Williams entered Candles to the Sun in a competition sponsored by the Dramatists Guild in New York City. Williams wrote Candles to the Sun, a play about striking coal miners and the powerlessness of the individual against the collective consciousness, at a time when his sister Rose’s… read more
May 24, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyView photos from “Postcards From America” event On Friday, May 13, the Ransom Center helped to launch Magnum Photos’s road trip Postcards from America project. The events began with an open bus where photography fans could meet and talk with Magnum photographers Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky, and writer Ginger Strand at… read more
May 17, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: David Mamet’s "Homicide" outline David Mamet is one of America’s best-known and most celebrated playwrights and filmmakers. He has received numerous awards and honors for such plays as American Buffalo (1975), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), Speed-the-Plow (1988), and Oleanna (1991), and films including The Verdict (1982), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), Wag the… read more
