Tennessee William Annual Review 2011
One hundred years after the iconic playwright’s birth, the 2011 issue opens with Sacre du Printemps, a never-before-published one-act play in which a young Williams experiments with themes—love, loyalty, and the transcendence of art—later explored in such early works as Stairs to the Roof and Spring Storm.
A memoir by the late playwright Jess Gregg takes readers behind the scenes as legendary director Elia Kazan struggles to bring Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to Broadway. Scholars analyze Williams’s confessional novel Moise and the World of Reason, track desire in Baby Doll, examine gender in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, read The Night of the Iguana as a travel narrative, and hold a conversation about the playwright’s coming out on national television in 1970. A selection of illustrations from the Hirschfeld Foundation’s collection complements the exhibition Drawn to Life: Al Hirschfeld and the Theater of Tennessee Williams.
Founded in 1998, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review remains the only regularly published journal devoted to Williams’s works, influence, and cultural context. Many issues showcase a previously unpublished work by Williams. Learn more at hnoc.org/publishing/tennessee-williams-annual-review.
Cover image: The Night of the Iguana, by Al Hirschfeld, 1964. ©Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
Detail
- published 2011 by HNOC
- softcover • 6" × 9" • 140 pp.
- 21 b&w images
- ISSN 1097-6035
Tennessee William Annual Review 2011
One hundred years after the iconic playwright’s birth, the 2011 issue opens with Sacre du Printemps, a never-before-published one-act play in which a young Williams experiments with themes—love, loyalty, and the transcendence of art—later explored in such early works as Stairs to the Roof and Spring Storm.
A memoir by the late playwright Jess Gregg takes readers behind the scenes as legendary director Elia Kazan struggles to bring Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to Broadway. Scholars analyze Williams’s confessional novel Moise and the World of Reason, track desire in Baby Doll, examine gender in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, read The Night of the Iguana as a travel narrative, and hold a conversation about the playwright’s coming out on national television in 1970. A selection of illustrations from the Hirschfeld Foundation’s collection complements the exhibition Drawn to Life: Al Hirschfeld and the Theater of Tennessee Williams.
Founded in 1998, the Tennessee Williams Annual Review remains the only regularly published journal devoted to Williams’s works, influence, and cultural context. Many issues showcase a previously unpublished work by Williams. Learn more at hnoc.org/publishing/tennessee-williams-annual-review.
Cover image: The Night of the Iguana, by Al Hirschfeld, 1964. ©Al Hirschfeld Foundation.
Detail
- published 2011 by HNOC
- softcover • 6" × 9" • 140 pp.
- 21 b&w images
- ISSN 1097-6035