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Regarding this production, Williams wrote in his Memoirs, "The laughter, genuine and loud, at the comedy I had written enchanted me. Then and there the theatre and I found each other for better and for worse. I know it's the only thing that's saved my life." [3] [4] It was published for the first time in 2016, in the Tennessee Williams Annual ...
Palooka may refer to: . Joe Palooka, an American comic strip; Palooka (film), a 1934 film based on the comic strip The Palooka, a one-act play by Tennessee Williams; Palookas, a 1980s rock group fronted by Jowe Head
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
Three by Tennessee is an episode of the television series Kraft Television Theatre that consisted of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams: Mooney's Kid Don't Cry with Ben Gazzara and Lee Grant; The Last of My Solid Gold Watches with Thomas Chalmers and Gene Saks; This Property is Condemned with Zina Bethune and Martin Huston
The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays is a collection of 15 plays, seven of them previously unpublished, by American playwright Tennessee Williams.Published by New Directions in New York City in 2011, Williams' scholar Thomas Keith edited the volume and provided the critical notes while playwright Terrence McNally, winner of four Tony Awards, wrote the foreword.
The Traveling Companion and Other Plays is a collection of experimental plays written by American playwright Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions and in New York City in 2008. [2] It is edited by Williams scholar Annette J. Saddik , [ 3 ] who provides the introduction.
[1] [2] Williams was interested in casting Julie Harris in the lead role. [3] He continued to work on the script as late as 1980; it was published after his death. [4] Jodie Markell recalled how she first became aware of the script: "I had been interested in Tennessee Williams since I was a teenager. I'd read a lot of his work, everything I ...
Period of Adjustment (subtitled High Point is Built Over a Cavern) is a 1960 play by Tennessee Williams that was adapted in the film version of 1962. Both the stage and film versions are set on Christmas Eve and tell the gentle, light-hearted story of two couples, one newlywed and the other married for five years, both experiencing pains and ...