Tennessee Williams News

The Barn at Lee, the artist development space and residency program known for supporting unique voices and new work in the Berkshires, launches its second season this fall with Two by Two

FIM Flint Repertory Theatre has announced its 2025-26 season, marking a pivotal and transformational year. Patrons will experience another outstanding lineup of productions with a temporary venue change.

Dundee Rep Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for a major new production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, directed by Dundee Rep Theatre’s Artistic Director, Andrew Panton.

South Florida Symphony Orchestra will launch its 28th season, Juxtapositions, in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and Key West beginning November 2025. Under the baton of Maestra Sebrina María Alfonso, the season will pair timeless masterworks with today’s most compelling musical voices. Subscriptions are on sale now, with individual tickets available September 5.

Broadway's Claybourne Elder is releasing a studio recording of his popular one-man show, If the Stars Were Mine. The album will be released in late fall of 2025.

 Bag&Baggage Productions will open its 21st season with The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, directed by Nik Whitcomb from Sept. 5 to 21 at The Vault Theater & Event Space. 

For me, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, widely known to be Tennessee Williams’ most autobiographical work, epitomises what so many of Williams’ plays do: that hope springs eternal even in the direst of circumstances. We wish and we yearn for the fantasies of each of the characters to come true, even when we already know how the story ends.

Director Michael James Reed and company present A Streetcar Named Desire with grand showmanship, attention grabbing storytelling, and intense performances. The Tennessee Williams Festival is an outstanding chance to see a superb production of his Williams’ masterpiece. It is hard to say a Tennessee William’s play enjoyable or entertaining because his dramas are never uplifting. A Streetcar Named Desire tackles brutality, abuse, alcoholism, toxic masculinity, class conflict, rape, mental anguish, and nervous breakdown. Blanche and Stanley’s dramatic conflict leaves victims in their wake. 

The KBO Theatre Company will present a reading of a new play 'The Dealers' written and directed by award winning director Angelina Kristic. Learn more here!

Tickets are now on sale for The Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams and the final production in The Rep's 2025 SummerStage season. Learn more!

'The Zoo Story' is a searing one-act revival that stars three-time Emmy Award winner Christian Jules Le Blanc and acclaimed Off-Broadway actor Matt de Rogatis.

Dramatists Play Service, an iconic imprint of Concord Theatricals, announced the release of One-Act Peter Pan Goes Wrong, a shortened version of the original hilarious full-length play. The new comedy is now available to license for productions across US and Canada.

Next month, 54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Beth Leavel, Casey Likes, Joe Iconis and more. See the full month of programming here! 

Theater Latté Da has revealed key casting and programming highlights for its 2025–2026 season, a landmark year that will include the company’s 100th production, the 100th anniversary of the historic Ritz Theater, and the finale of its five-year NEXT 25x25 initiative to develop 25 new musicals.

Full casting has been announced for Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts. Led by the previously announced Tom Chambers. Learn more about the UK tour here!

Due to scheduling conflicts, I was able to avail myself of only a small sampling of the W71 events during the first weekend of programming. We attended a performance of MANY HAPPY RETURNS at 11am and Tennessee Williams’ CAMINO REAL at 2pm. We had time between to enjoy lunch and a bit of shopping on Spring Street. The performances were very well done, a bit non-traditional, and without a doubt up to the long standing and well-established standards / expectations associated with the WTF. Bravo to all involved in the resurrection of this Phoenix from the Ashes. Although, admittedly once skeptical (I am a former New Yorker) I am happy to highly recommend immersion in the newly re-imagined Williamstown Theatre Festival. You will have to move quickly though as W71 runs only through August 3. That said, I am already looking forward to what W72 will bring us in the Summer of 2026.

Tennessee Williams: Portrait of a Gay Icon is a one man play about the playwright Tennessee Williams, coming to Old Diorama Arts Centre. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Rochester’s The Company Theatre has revealed its upcoming 2025-26 season along with its move to a location familiar to many in the Rochester theatre community. Learn more.

Tennessee Williams Theatre Company’s CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, now playing at the Marquette Theatre in New Orleans, does exactly that. It’s electric. It’s guttural. And it’s one of the boldest things I’ve seen TWTC do, and that’s saying something.

The Glass Menagerie / Speelgoed van glas, Nico Scheepers’ award-winning reimagining of Tennessee Williams’ classic memory play, will run in English and Afrikaans this August at the Baxter Flipside. Check out photos from the production.