Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis is presenting a trio of the playwright’s early one-act plays. They show the influence the city’s vibrant cinema culture of the 1930s had on the writer.

Tennessee Williams is celebrated, once again, in the city he disdained.

A new production of "The Glass Menagerie" is being staged on the grounds of the Westminster Place apartment building where playwright Tennessee Williams once lived. Carrie Houk and Brian Hohlfeld share the details on "St. Louis on the Air."

In his new book about playwright Tennessee Williams, Washington University professor Henry I. Schvey argues that St. Louis was indispensable in shaping Williams’ artistry.

“I really wanted to do something for our audience that would take them away from their computer,” the festival’s executive artistic director, Carrie Houk, explained. Radio seemed the perfect medium, and indeed, she and other organizers, including Brian Hohlfeld, are finding that the playwright's dialogue translates well to it.

The third annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis gets underway later this week in honor of a legendary American playwright, poet and artist who…

It is well documented that playwright Tennessee Williams did not look kindly on his childhood spent in St. Louis, Missouri. Born in Mississippi into a…

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Tennessee Williams was not the world’s biggest fan of the town he grew up in. But that’s not stopping the…

The Guardian has called it “compulsively readable.” Dame Helen Mirren has said it to be a “masterpiece.” On Thursday’s “St. Louis on the Air,” host Don…

For only the second time, Tennessee Williams' "Stairs to the Roof" will be seen in the U.S. Williams wrote the play in December 1941, after he had left…