15th annual Tribute brings Tennessee Williams’ unseen characters into the light
When Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” premiered in Chicago in 1944, it catapulted the Columbus-born playwright from relative obscurity to fame. It also introduced the world to the Wingfield family, Amanda, Tom and Laura — a faded Southern belle of a mother, her restless son and shy, sensitive daughter.
Plans underway for 15th Tennessee Williams Tribute
Members of the Tennessee Williams Tribute Board are busy finalizing plans for the 15th annual Tribute honoring the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and poet born in Columbus March 26, 1911.
Tennessee Williams at last gets an Old Capitol portrait
Tennessee Williams, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright from Columbus, has been a member of the Mississippi Hall of Fame since 2001.
‘Poetry Out Loud’ celebrates poems by Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams’ name is most often associated with stage classics such as “The Glass Menagerie,” “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”
‘Suddenly, Last Summer’: Tennessee Williams Tribute play opens in Columbus, then on to ‘P’town’
Rent Auditorium in Columbus stood cavernous and dark on an August evening, save for a few lights high above its stage. Below them, a cast, director and crew gathered for play rehearsal.
Rare Tennessee Williams story published for first time
As she takes in the despair of her in-laws’ one-room apartment in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche Dubois exclaims: “Only Poe! Only Mr. Edgar Allan Poe could do it justice!”
Years earlier, Tennessee Williams channeled Poe for an entire story.
Worth the drive: Alabama tribute to Tennessee Williams explores Southern ties
Tennessee Williams’ work was influenced by two relationships from Alabama.
Downtown alley redesign begins
The design stage for the restoration of two downtown Columbus alleyways has begun.
Gillian Anderson onscreen soon in ‘Streetcar’
If you can’t get to London in time to catch Gillian Anderson spinning onstage in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” her orbit is about to get larger.
City, CVB receive grant for pedestrian connector
The Mississippi Department of Transportation has awarded a grant that will help pay for restoration of two alleyways between Catfish Alley and the Tennessee Williams Home and Welcome Center.
Rare Tennessee Williams story published
Before his mother became the model for Blanche DuBois of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and his sister the inspiration for Laura Wingfield of “The Glass Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams drew upon a college girlfriend — if only in name — to tell a story of desire, drunkenness and regret.
September Table Talks open with Williams scholar
It has become a happy tradition for Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library to begin its September Table Talk offerings with a salute to Columbus’s
TWT’s ‘Autumn Song’: listen in on a lavish musical conversation
What would a meeting sound like between American playwright and poet Tennessee Williams and German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, if the two iconic writers had
Calling all ‘Stanleys’ for ‘Stella’ shouting contest
In playful homage to Stella and Stanley Kowalski, characters in Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” contestants may enter the Stella Shouting Contest to yell “Stella” as loud and as heart-rending as they can, for fun and prizes. The entertaining event is part of the 12th annual Tennessee Williams Tribute taking place in Columbus Sept. 3-8.
Stitches and Stories: Quilters interpret titles by Columbus’ most famous writer
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare once posed. But it is a writer of a much later era whose plays, screenplays and short story names inspired a quilting challenge within the Possum Town Quilters guild. For the quilters, the name was everything.
‘The Rose Tattoo’: Tony Award-winning play opens 11th annual tribute to Tennessee Williams
“It’s like watching a plant grow,” said first-time thespian Holly Jeter Tuesday night at play rehearsal. He’d shed the starched shirt and suspenders he wears
‘Orpheus Descending’ nears Mississippi premiere
Tennessee Williams once said, “Home is where you hang your childhood. For me, that is Mississippi.”
On Feb. 23-25, one of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s works is coming home. Not only to Mississippi, but to the town of Williams’ birth, in 1911. Columbus is the opening host city for a state tour of “Orpheus Descending.”
‘The Night of the Iguana’ opens six-day Tennessee Williams Tribute
In the respite before rehearsal Tuesday evening, cast and crew arrive, one by one. In shorts, jeans and sandals, they stroll into Whitfield Hall, exchanging hellos, adrenaline banked. The setting sun outside infuses Mississippi University for Women’s Rent Auditorium with a dusky light.
Playwright’s birth home represented at conference in France
When scholars and fans of the works of Tennessee Williams gathered in Nancy, France, June 23-25 for the centenary celebration “Tennessee Williams in Europe,” the playwright’s first hometown was represented. Brenda Caradine and Jim DelPrince, both of Columbus, attended the event.