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Theater Preview: Beckett, Williams, Beau Jest, and “Last Call” for Provincetown’s Tennessee Williams Festival

September 11, 2025
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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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Theater Interview: Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s David Kaplan on “Last Call: The Final Fall Festival”

September 2, 2025
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“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.”

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Film Review: “Truman & Tennessee: an intimate conversation” — He Said, He Said

June 21, 2021
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Truman & Tennessee is a meticulously researched and edited documentary about two gay men and their differing commitments to art.

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Theater Review: Tennessee Williams’ “Talisman Roses” — Early Healing

September 30, 2018
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This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams’ talent as a playwright.

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Theater Review: Tennessee Williams Inspires “Desire”

May 9, 2017
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The source material  — and the skills of Tennessee Williams’ posthumous collaborators — provides an evening of compelling theater.

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Theater Review: “The Night of the Iguana” — A Creature Feature

March 4, 2017
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The ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams’ talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Eight by Tenn” — Tennessee Williams’ Miraculous Miniatures

September 13, 2016
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Eight by Tenn offers eight stories whose psychological depths and linguistic riches rival those of most full-length plays.

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Theater Review: “The Rose Tattoo” — A Spectacular Production from the Williamstown Theatre Festival

July 4, 2016
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This superb production offers audiences a chance to discover or rediscover an American classic.

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Book Review: “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” — A Definitive Biography of One of Our Most Important Playwrights

October 14, 2014
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The biography is a remarkable read. It has all the hefty research you’d expect from a scholarly work, yet the story is told through prose fit for a great novel.

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Theater Feature: Tennessee Williams Theater Festival 2013 — An Exemplary Year

October 8, 2013
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Tennessee Williams was a prolific writer, and each season the Festival presents an unfinished play or little known work from his vast canon.

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