A Streetcar Named Desire Mel Cooper 11/05/2018 A new production by English Touring Theatre, Theatre Clwyd and Nuffield Southampton Theatres simply proves once again that the Tennessee Williams’ pla...
Summer and Smoke Nicole Kent 12/03/2018 ‘You have a doppelganger,’ says John Buchanan (Matthew Needham) to Alma Winemiller (Patsy Ferran) in Tennessee Williams’ ‘Summer and Smoke.’ This line...
The Glass Menagerie Chris Bridges 08/02/2017 Tennessee Williams’ 1944 memory play is an often performed twentieth century standard that you may think that you know well. John Tiffany’s version br...
Confessional Camille Hainsworth-Staples 10/10/2016 Leona (Stanton) wants to help people feel beautiful - if not forever, then for a week, a day or just an hour. Her need to cure their loneliness stems ...
The Glass Menagerie Marine Furet 09/08/2016 In a humble house in Saint Louis, Amanda Wingfield (Broadway star Cherry Jones), and her two grown-up children, Tom (Michael Esper) and Laura (Kate O’...
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Sam Pengelly 13/04/2016 Tennessee Williams’ 1969 play, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel is rarely performed, and after watching, I think there is some reasoning behind that. It is...
One Arm S.A. McCracken 13/06/2015 The UK premier of One Arm fuses Tennessee Williams’ short story and unproduced screenplay, adapting the narrative for the stage. This is a bleak visio...
A Streetcar Named Desire Rebecca Coates 01/04/2015 It is no easy to feat to translate Tennessee William’s evocative prose into dance, and choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa deserves the highest praise...
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 John Lahr is a respected critic and biographer and in his latest book, a definitive life of Tennessee Williams, he has outdone himself in giving us a ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Ellie Buchdahl 07/11/2014 The genre-smashing, cliché-bashing success that was Maxine Peake’s Hamlet was always going to be a hard act for the Royal Exchange’s to follow. Sure e...
