''The Poker Night'' was once the working title for what would become Tennessee Williams's most celebrated work. So perhaps it's appropriate that a poker game provides one of the few moments approaching excitement in the torpid revival of the play that was renamed ''A Streetcar Named Desire.'' That moment occurs early enough in Emily Mann's...
Peering through her silver lorgnette, the martini-packing woman with the big jewelry is woozy with disorientation. ''There's certainly nothing familiar about this terrain,'' says the woman, Babe, an aging heiress played by Shirley Knight in the murky stew of exotica called ''In Masks Outrageous and Austere,'' which opened on Monday night at the...
CHICAGO -- ''This place is confusing to me,'' says Kilroy, the permanently punch-drunk ex-prizefighter hero of Tennessee Williams's ''Camino Real,'' who has landed in a Latin American town from which he cannot seem to escape. ''I think it must be the after-effects of fever.'' It might be amusing to poll audiences exiting the Goodman Theater here,...
Thomas Lanier Williams III, kendt som Tennessee Williams (26. marts 1911 - 25. februar 1983) , amerikansk dramatiker. Han er specielt kendt for sine filmatiserede skuespil Omstigning til Paradis fra 1947 og Kat på et varmt bliktag fra 1955. Begge er skuespil fra de amerikanske sydstater med skildringer af lidenskabelige kvinder.