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The Tennessee Williams Collection
Explore the catalog of one of America's greatest playwrights.
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A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 4wA Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w
"Williams, as always, writes with poetic compassion...a series of moving and engrossing moments in the theatre." —Variety
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 6w, 6mA Streetcar Named Desire
Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 6m
Tennessee Williams' explosive and groundbreaking drama ranks as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.
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Camino Real
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Comedy 12w, 27mCamino Real
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 12w, 27m
"A strange and disturbing drama…as eloquent and rhythmic as a piece of music." — The New York Times
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Candles to the Sun
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 9w, 13mCandles to the Sun
Full-Length Play, Drama / 9w, 13m
Set in the Red Hills coal mining section of Alabama and dealing with both the attempts of the miners to unionize and the bleak lives of their families, the play, according to St Louis Star-Times critic Reed Hynds, is "an earnest and searching examination of a particular social reality set out in hum…
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 5w, 8m, 2girl(s), 2boy(s)Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 8m, 2girl(s), 2boy(s)
Winner! 1955 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
One of the most successful plays of our time...a play of tremendous dramatic impact…enormous theatrical power." — New York Post
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Fugitive Kind
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 4w, 19mFugitive Kind
Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 19m
Fugitive Kind, with its star-crossed lovers and big city slum setting, takes place in a flophouse on the St. Louis waterfront in the shadow of Eads Bridge, where Williams spent Saturdays away from his baleful factory job and met his characters: jobless wayfarers on the dole, young writers a…
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Not About Nightingales
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 9mNot About Nightingales
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 9m
A raw, sprawling dramatization of real events at a Philadelphia prison in 1937.
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Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 9w, 10mOrpheus Descending
Full-Length Play, Drama / 9w, 10m
"Because of the power and the brilliance and the humor of his writing, it emerges as a consistently moving and captivating experience…the author has done a masterful job of getting inside his characters." —NY Journal-American
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Period of Adjustment
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 4w, 4mPeriod of Adjustment
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 4m
The first full-length comedy by the playwright whom many consider to be the finest of our times. "It is, quite simply, a resounding success. It has warmth and wisdom, and hilarious good humor…" —NY Journal-American
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Spring Storm
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 15w, 9mSpring Storm
Full-Length Play, Drama / 15w, 9m
A classic deep South tale of adolescent rites of passage.
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Suddenly Last Summer
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 5w, 2mSuddenly Last Summer
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 2m
In one of Tennessee Williams' most haunting pieces of writing, how far will a mother go to preserve her son's reputation? Presented Off-Broadway with Something Unspoken under the collective title Garden District.
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Summer and Smoke
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 6w, 8mSummer and Smoke
Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 8m
Summer and Smoke is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor.
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Sweet Bird of Youth
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 7w, 15mSweet Bird of Youth
Full-Length Play, Drama / 7w, 15m
"Once again a bolt of thunder has been hurled by that Jovian playwright, Tennessee Williams, and the theatre reverberates to its roar." — NY Newsday
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The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 2mThe Glass Menagerie
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 2m
A drama of great tenderness, charm and beauty, The Glass Menagerie is one of the most famous plays of the modern theatre.
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The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 6w, 8mThe Night of the Iguana
Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 8m
"An awesome and powerful new drama." —NY World Telegram & Sun
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The Rose Tattoo
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 14w, 9mThe Rose Tattoo
Full-Length Play, Drama / 14w, 9m
Winner of the 1951 Tony Award for Best Play. One of the author's most beautiful and powerful plays. Set among a colony of Sicilian fisherfolk on the American Gulf Coast, it is the story of a woman for whom love was stronger than death.
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The Two Character Play (Out Cry)
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 1mThe Two Character Play (Out Cry)
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power in one of Tennessee Williams’ most personal, mystifying, haunting, provocative, and oftern funny works.
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Vieux Carré
Tennessee Williams
Full-Length Play, Drama 5w, 5mVieux Carré
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
"…the murmurings of genius…an authentic voice of the twentieth-century theatre." — The New York Times