Tennessee Williams News

Oakland Theater Project has announced its 2026 Season: The Land of The Free, featuring seven new productions that examine a foundational tenet of America.

La obra maestra de Tennessee Williams se convierte en una puesta en escena cinematográfica y onírica bajo la dirección de David Olguín.

 KAPA Repertory Theatre has concluded a sold-out, three-night limited engagement of A Streetcar Named Desire at Circa on Seventh — a theatrical event audiences are calling unlike any way they've ever experienced this American masterpiece before.

Academy Award-winning actress Estelle Parsons is returning to Theater for the New City as the honoree at its annual Love and Courage gala to raise money to present the work of emerging playwrights.

Veteran director Jack Heller will return to the Odyssey Theatre to helm a visiting production of Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter, an evening of two rarely staged Pinter one-acts—both darkly comic, both unmistakably unsettling.

Theater Latté Da has extended THE GLASS MENAGERIE at the Ritz Theater in Minneapolis. Additional performances have been added through March 8. Tickets start at $39 for the Tennessee Williams classic.

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KAPA Repertory Theatre has announced its Season Two production: a striking, reimagined staging of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Learn more here!

Harbinger Theatre has announced its 2026 season, featuring four Capital Region premieres by underrepresented playwrights. The fifth season includes productions in Schenectady, Troy, Albany, and Averill Park.

Milton Keynes Theatre will present INSPECTOR MORSE: HOUSE OF GHOSTS, a thrilling stage adaptation, from March 17-21.

The St. Louis Theatre Circle has announced their nominations for their annual awards to be distributed on March 23, 2026, at the Loretto-Hilton Center. 172 theatre artists have been nominated in 34 categories honoring the best in St. Louis Theater in 2025. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis leads all companies with a record-breaking 38 nominations for their productions of Athena, Clyde’s, Emma, Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Brothers Size, and The Cottage. Emma is the most nominated comedy of the season with 11 nominations.

Lakewood Theatre Company will present Tennessee Williams' poignant drama THE GLASS MENAGERIE, starting February 27, 2026, at the Lakewood Center for the Arts in Lake Oswego.

The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans will present SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS at Loyola University New Orleans. The rarely produced Tennessee Williams play is set in a bar and follows a group of characters confronting personal and social tensions.

This history gives context to the legacies of theatrical dynasties—considered to consist of at least three subsequent generations of theatre creators. In 2026, there is a stigma around any successful professional who follows a parent into their line of work, with this being seen as a pattern of nepotism.

The Theater Project’s 2026 New Play Readings series will present a staged reading of three short plays by Rosemary Parrillo at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 21, at Cranford Community Center’s 110-seat theater.

Theater Latté Da is gearing up to present a new iteration of Tennessee Williams' classic, The Glass Menagerie and it promises to be a must see production.  Broadway World was lucky enough to catch up with one of its stars, Norah Long, who will take on the role of Amanda. Below is that conversation:

Check out production photos from Ed's Filmworks' West Coast premiere of Kind Stranger ... a memory play, conceived and performed by Rick Simone-Friedland, and adapted and directed by Steven Simone-Friedland.

McCarter Theatre Center announced that former Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann will receive the inaugural Roger S. Berlind Award at its annual gala on June 12, 2026.

You can now get a first look at brand-new production photos from The Streetcar Project's production of A Streetcar Named Desire at A.C.T.'s Toni Rembe Theater.

MadKap Productions will present the musical COMPANY for 13 live performances at the Skokie Theatre, 7924 Lincoln Ave in Downtown Skokie. from Feb 6 through Mar 1, 2026.