June 7, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: Tennessee Williams interviews… Tennessee Williams The first major production of a Tennessee Williams play, Battle of Angels (1940), was a complete failure and scandal. The play was poorly received; one critic compared watching the play to being “dunked in mire.” Boston City Council members called for the play to be censored, and it ran for… read more
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 19, 2011, Filed Under: Authors, Theatre + Performing ArtsQ and A: Playwright Tony Kushner speaks about influence of Tennessee Williams In light of the Ransom Center’s current exhibition Becoming Tennessee Williams, Cultural Compass spoke with Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner about Tennessee Williams’s legacy. Read a transcript of the interview with Kushner, in which he discusses how Williams has influenced him, his first encounter with Williams’s works,… read more
