The embattled Wingfield family: Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, dominating mother, who hopes to match her daughter with an eligible "gentleman caller;" Laura, a lame and painfully shy, she evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to a world of make-believe; Tom's sole support of the family, he eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura. The only single edition now available...

Story of star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of Depression-era St. Louis, where gangsters, jobless wayfarers, socialist agitators, and young writers and artists of the WPA haunt the waterfront in the shadow of the Eads Bridge.

In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real (pronunciation: Cá-mino Réal) is a long highway, a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, a nightmare, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature -- Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron -- inhabit a place where corruption, starvation, indifference and greed have immobilized anyone who tries to escape. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal...

"The solid and deft characterizations of the four young people whose lives intertwine - the sexually alive Heavenly Critchfield, her earthy lover Dick Miles, Heavenly's wealthy but tongue-tied admirer Arthur Shannon, and the repressed librarian Hertha Neilson who loves Arthur - while unique, foreshadow characters we will meet again and again in the Williams canon. Epic in scope, somewhat melodramatic in execution, tragic in outcome, Spring Storm created...

Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Roger L. Stevens, chairman, Martin Feinstein, executive director, Kennedy Center and Xerox Corporation present the American Bicentennial Theatre production, Irene Worth, Christopher Walken, in Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," directed by Edwin Sherin, with Pat Corley, Cathryn Damon, Matthew Cowles, Lisa Richards, Eugenia Rawls, and Christopher Bernau, Richard Kuss, Philip Lindsay, Tom Stechschulte,...

"Tennessee Williams's Vieux Carré is not emotion recollected in tranquility but emotion re-created with all the pain, compassion, and wry humor of the playwright's own 1938 sojourn in the New Orleans French Quarter vividly intact"--From dust jacket flap.

An alternate version of an experimental, partially autobiographical play by Tennessee Williams. The characters, Felice and Clare, are two actors on tour, as well as brother and sister. Left behind by the rest of the company, they try to present a show, making up what has been forgotten or not yet written. "The characters in this play, Felice and Clare, are two actors on tour; they are also brother and sister. They find themselves deserted by their...