Tennessee Williams News

Theatre Askew will present the World Premiere of BUSTED: The Musical, written and performed by Bianca Leigh.

SPICA 8 PRODUCTIONS announces the production of James Haigney?s THE WOMAN STANDING ON THE MOON, directed by Benard Cummings.

The brother and sister stars of two of the most successful movies in recent times get together this October to head the cast of a the revival of a lost gem of British theatre. Charlie Bewley, who hit worldwide fame for his portrayal of Demetri in the Twilight saga, will join forces with Lydia Rose Bewley, who made her screen debut as Jane in this Summer's box office phenomenon The Inbetweeners Movie to star as stage siblings in Charles Morgan's wartime drama The River Line at Jermyn Street Theatre. They also includes Alex Felton, Dave Hill, Eileen Page and Lyne Renee.

Albuquerque Theatre Guild sets their September 2011 Performance Calendar. More theatrical performances take place every weekend here in Albuquerque than in any other U.S. city of its size.

Queensland Theatre Company and Black Swan State Theatre Company present Tennessee Williams's classic family drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that takes audiences into the Deep South and the Pollitt family's web of deceit and desperate pursuit of happiness.

Hell in a Handbag Productions will kick off their season with a tale so big there's barely room to contain its bubbling melodrama.

Aurora Theatre Company proudly opens its 20th anniversary season with renowned American playwright Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning brutal comedy of manners A DELICATE BALANCE. Aurora Theatre Company Artistic Director Tom Ross helms a remarkable cast for A DELICATE BALANCE, including Aurora co-founder Ken Grantham and the company's first leading lady (Candida), Kimberly King.

The award-winning theatre company Son of Semele Ensemble (SOSE) presents the world premiere of What The Moon Saw, or 'I Only Appear To Be Dead' by Stephanie Fleischmann, playing at the Son of Semele Theater in Silver Lake from September 9 through October 9, 2011, in a production scheduled to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of 9/11.

TWO ROADS THEATRE is has announced that its critically-acclaimed, Ovation recommended, smash-hit, world premiere play, KOWALSKI, written by Gregg Ostrin and directed and produced by Rick Shaw (‘It's Just Sex') is EXTENDING through Sunday, September 18 at the Two Roads Theatre, 4348 Tujunga Blvd. Avenue in Studio City.

America's great playwright Tennessee Williams was also a prolific short story writer throughout his life. In 'Dirty Shorts,' a one night special event, two bawdy stories he wrote that celebrate sexual fulfillment as political expression will be read by actors for the first time at this year's Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival - Double Exposure: Past and Present.

Broadway and television director David Pressman has passed away, according to Variety. He was 97 years old.

Westport Country Playhouse will present the enchanting musical, 'Skippyjon Jones,' on Sunday, September 25, at 1 and 4 p.m.

The Albuquerque Theatre Guild continues its 2011 Tennessee Williams Festival celebrating the 100th birthday of the playwright with a panel discussion, Tennessee Williams Today: The Changing Legacy of a Great American Playwright. At 2 p.m.

The NY Times reports that James Franco will not be participating in the upcoming revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth alongside Nicole Kidman, as had previously been set. While no dates had been announced for the production, Kidman had been attached to the production officially as 'Alexandra', while the last reports indicate that Franco had all but signed on the dotted line for the role of 'Chance'. Back in January he told MTV that he planned to participate in the production, while later in the winter the revival's director David Cromer told the New York Times that he believed it was a done deal.

On September 15, Louis Armstrong comes back to life at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre where Dennis Neal stars in the world premiere of Terry Teachout's Satchmo at the Waldorf, a one-man play about the most beloved jazzman of all time. Set at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong performed in public for the last time before his death in 1971, Satchmo at the Waldorf is a theatrical tour de force, a play in which the same actor portrays Armstrong and Joe Glaser, the trumpeter's controversial manager. Inspired by their actual words, the play takes a searching look at the complex relationship between the genius from New Orleans who turned jazz into a swinging art form and the hard-nosed, tough-talking ex-gangster from Chicago who made him an international icon.

In 1962, two great Utah establishments began their now-illustrious odysseys: BYU Broadcasting was granted a license to operate on television, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival presented its first annual season in Cedar City. This year, the two join forces for a onetime special live broadcast of a Festival performance.

In celebration of Tennessee Williams' centennial year, Westport Country Playhouse will stage a special performance by acclaimed actor Richard Thomas in 'A Distant Country Called Youth,' based on a collection of lively and evocative letters written by a young Tennessee Williams, on Monday, August 29, 7 p.m.