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
April 28, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: The "Ruins of a Play" evolve into "The Glass Menagerie" Most people know Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie as the least disguised and most deeply autobiographical of Williams’s plays, the positive reception of which elevated him to immediate celebrity. He was applauded as loudly for Menagerie as he was booed for his previous play Battle of Angels. Williams later described… read more
April 21, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsIn the galleries: "Girls! Girls! Girls! Did You Marry Your First ‘Gentlemen Caller’?" The 1950 screen version of The Glass Menagerie has been judged the “first and worst” adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play. Williams himself abhorred it as “the most awful travesty… horribly mangled,” lacking any vestige of the poetic techniques of the play. Although Williams helped to adapt the script, he… read more
