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Feb 8, 1999 · Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage. Premiere: 12/19/1994. He was brilliant and prolific, breathing life and passion into such memorable characters as Blanche DuBois and Stanley...
Playwright Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. After studying at the University of Missouri in Columbia and Washington University in St. Louis, he earned a BA from the University of Iowa in 1938. He then moved to New Orleans, one of two places where he was for…
Dec 31, 2019 · Updated on December 31, 2019. Tennessee Williams (March 26, 1911—February 25, 1983) was an American playwright, essayist, and memoirist best known for his plays set in the South. Much of Williams’ oeuvre was adapted for the cinema. Fast Facts: Tennessee Williams. Full Name: Thomas Lanier Williams III.
March 26, 1911 · Columbus, Mississippi, USA. Died. February 25, 1983 · New York City, New York, USA (after choking on a bottle cap) Birth name. Thomas Lanier Williams. Nickname. The Bird. Height. 5′ 6″ (1.68 m) Mini Bio. Tennessee Williams met long-term partner Frank Merlo in the summer of 1948 (Merlo died of lung cancer in the fall of 1963).
Oct 9, 2014 · The Man Who Queered Broadway. By Hilton Als. October 9, 2014. Lahr writes that Tennessee Williams was “most alert, eloquent, humorous, vulnerable, and forthright when talking about the one pure...
Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911. The name given to him at birth was Thomas Lanier Williams III. He did not acquire the nickname Tennessee until college, when classmates began calling him that in honor of his Southern accent and his father’s home state.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams’ renowned work reflects his two decades of coming of age in St. Louis, and his creations range from the famed classics, to adaptations for film and opera, to dozens of newly discovered plays and writings that have been continuously documented, performed and studied around the world.
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