Tennessee Williams News

Williamstown Theatre Festival returns July 17–August 3 for its 71st season, featuring Pamela Anderson in Camino Real, new work by Jeremy O. Harris, a world premiere on ice, and late-night comedy from Julio Torres and Sydnee Washington.

Theater for the New City will present Kind Stranger…a memory play based on Tennessee Williams' MEMOIRS, adapted for the stage and directed by Steven Simone-Friedland. Learn more!

With the critically acclaimed revival of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel currently playing, Artistic Director Tim Sheader and Executive Director Henny Finch has announced three new plays for Autumn 2025/26.

Among the most highly anticipated theatrical events in St. Louis this summer is the mainstage production at the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis (TWSTL.) In celebration of their 10th Anniversary Season, TWSTL is staging William’s seminal work A Streetcar Named Desire.  

The 20th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival has revealed its September 2025 program. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 9, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

International Literary Properties’ theatrical division (ILP) has entered into a strategic partnership with The University of the South for ILP to assume an active management role and co-stewardship of the works of Tennessee Williams. Learn more!

Quick and Dirty Theatre Company will present 'The Iguana Becomes Marco' by Booth McGowan. An unsettling story about the animals we let become us. Learn more!

Backyard Renaissance’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” isn’t just a drama; it’s a ghost story. Director Rob Lutfy leans into the spectral energy of Tennessee Williams’ New Orleans, conjuring a version of the classic that feels both timeless and supernatural. With ghostly music, poetic visuals, and achingly poignant performances, this production transforms Blanche DuBois’ descent into madness into something mythic.

Suddenly Last Summer, the classic American Drama written by Tennessee Williams, will open at the Whitmore Lindley Theatre Center, 11006 Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601.

The UK debut of Gregg Ostrin's critically acclaimed play. Quintessential British super spy, Simon Cross, wakes to find himself in rehab for drinking, gambling, womanising and anger management issues. As the embodiment of obsolescent toxic masculinity can he possibly navigate his way through the sessions with his fellow, extremely self-aware, recovering addicts to find enlightenment? Could this be his toughest mission yet?

Next month, 54 BELOW will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, including Lee Roy Reams and more. See the full lineup here!

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that bisexuals are often underserved when it comes to theatre and media. Poltergeist thriller Ivories valiantly sweeps in at the close of Pride Month, but it over-promises and under-delivers. Beyond the messy and exceedingly protracted set-up, lies a great story that will delight all queer fans of the genre. After all, an eerie old house, a dying grandmother, and a bunch of secrets bound for the grave are the bones of any good spooky summer horror.

Additional programming has been revealed for the Williamstown Theatre Festival's 71st season. Learn more about Late at the Annex series here and see how to purchase tickets.

Because of its great cultural and intellectual influence, Boston has been known as the Athens of America for centuries. That sobriquet is as true today as ever thanks to the area’s vibrant theater scene featuring pre-Broadway productions and national tours, Tony Award-winning regional theaters, and a host of other theater companies presenting everything from Shakespeare to classic and contemporary plays, musicals and concerts.

Karl E. Held, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway producer whose wide-ranging career in the performing arts spanned more than four decades, died on June 23 in New York City.

An expansion of Tennessee Williams's earlier one-act play, “Confessional”, Small Craft Warnings centers on a motley group of people gathered in a seedy coastal bar in Southern California.

West End alum Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to star in a new film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility from Focus Features and Working Title Films.

Tom Glynn-Carney will play George Deever and Hayley Squires will play Ann Deever in Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS, directed by Ivo Van Hove.

Tennessee Williams found fame with 1944’s “The Glass Menagerie,” which is considered to be one of the gifted playwright’s most notable works along with “A Streetcar Named Desire, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Sweet Bird of Youth.” That status is being affirmed once again by the magnificent production of the drama now at Gloucester Stage through June 28.