Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
“For this season, I did not want us to do a ‘greatest hits.’ I did not want to limp away. This is our last full and robust season, but not our last time producing plays.”
My hunch is that not only theater critics but audiences will find the parade of tried and true tiresome.
“A lot of censorship in America has to do with the impulse to shut down what women have to say, literally hanging and burning them as witches to shut them up.”
Kudos for two short plays by Tennessee Williams and Yukio Mishma at this year’s Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
The highlights of this year’s gathering will be productions of newly discovered or rediscovered works by both Tennessee Williams and Yukio Mishima.
A newly published book of translations and two upcoming Boston-area stage productions confirms the enduring elemental power of Federico García Lorca.
Once Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams achieved success, they wanted to take on themes in their plays that challenged audiences.
Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.
Theater Preview: Beckett, Williams, Beau Jest, and “Last Call” for Provincetown’s Tennessee Williams Festival
When Beau Jest Moving Theatre heard this was to be the last fully-produced year of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and that this year’s theme was Last Call — a look at the work of Williams in conversation with the work of Samuel Beckett — we knew we wanted to be a part of it.
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