Best Tennessee Williams Plays - April 2024

Tennessee Williams: Plays 1937-1955 (Library of America)

Tennessee Williams's explosive, often violent, plays shattered conventional proprieties and transformed the American stage. They inspired some of the most famous productions and performances in theatrical and film history, and they continue to grip audiences all over the world. Now, in an authoritative two-volume edition, The Library of America collects the plays that define Williams's extraordinary range and achievement. This first volume begins with the stunning rediscovered plays of Williams's early career: Spring Storm, a tragedy of provincial longing that prefigures the mood and language ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1883011868
• ASIN: 1883011868
• ISBN: 1883011868
• Brand: Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

27 Wagons Full of Cotton And Other One-Act Plays

The thirteen one-act plays collected in this volume include some of Tennessee Williams's finest and most powerful work. They are full of the perception of life as it is, and the passion for life as it ought to be, which have made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire classics of the American theater. Only one of these plays (The Purification) is written in verse, but in all of them the approach to character is by way of poetic revelation. Whether Williams is writing of derelict roomers in a New Orleans boarding house (The Lady of Larkspur Lotion) or the memories of a venerable trave... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0811202259
• ASIN: 0811202259
• ISBN: 0811202259
• Manufacturer: New Directions

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 1: Battle of Angels / The Glass Menagerie / A Streetcar Named Desire

Volume 1 leads with Battle of Angels, William’s first produced play (1940), an early version of Orpheus Descending. This is followed by the texts of his first great popular successes: The Glass Menagerie (1945) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), which established Williams’s reputation once and for all as a genius of the modern American theatre.The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in a matching format the plays of one of the America’s most influential and innovative dramatists. Arranged in chronological order, this ongoing series includes the orig... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0811211355
• ASIN: 0811211355
• ISBN: 0811211355
• Brand: New Directions
• Manufacturer: New Directions

Suddenly Last Summer. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

Book by Williams, Tennessee

• ASIN: 0822210940
• ASIN: 0822210940
• ISBN: 0822210940
• Brand: Brand: Dramatist's Play Service
• Manufacturer: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

The Glass Menagerie

No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the auth... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0811214044
• ASIN: 0811214044
• ISBN: 9780811214049
• Brand: New Directions
• Manufacturer: New Directions

Summer and Smoke. (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

"Summer and Smoke" is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams, originally titled Chart of Anatomy when Williams began work on it in 1945. In 1964, Williams revised the play as "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale." "Summer and Smoke" is set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi from the "turn of the century through 1916," and centers on a high-strung, unmarried minister's daughter, Alma Winemiller, and the spiritual/sexual romance that nearly blossoms between her and the wild, undisciplined young doctor who grew up next door, John Buchanan, Jr. She, ineffably refined, identifies with the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0822210975
• ASIN: 0822210975
• ISBN: 0822210975
• Manufacturer: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams (New Directions Paperbook)

All of the author's previously published poems, including poems from the plays, are in this definitive edition that comes with a CD of the author reading some of his poems in his unmistakable Mississippi drawl. Few writers achieve success in more than one genre, and yet if Tennessee Williams had never written a single play he would still be known as a distinguished poet. The excitement, compassion, lyricism, and humor that epitomize his writing for the theater are all present in his poetry. It was as a young poet that Williams first came to the attention of New Directions’ founder James Laug... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0811216918
• ASIN: 0811216918
• ISBN: 0811216918
• Brand: Brand: New Directions
• Manufacturer: New Directions

Best Radio Plays-5 Audio CD Collection-Radio Live Theater Presentations.1952-1953

Best Radio Plays-5 Audio CD Collection-Radio Live Theater Presentations..1952-1953. Adapted from your favorite movies, theatrical Broadway plays. You will enjoy hours of entertainment with Hollywood legends. Show list: Of Mice And Men, Burgess Meredith and Anthony Quinn - Elizabeth The Queen, Eva Le Gallienne - Mr. Roberts, Arthur Kennedy - Arsenic and Old Lace, Boris Karloff and Donald Cook - Tennessee Williams-Summer and Smoke, Geraldine Page and Richard Kiley. Each CD is 60 minutes long and in their original state. Please if you have any questions about this Amazon item, just ask!

• ASIN: B06XWTTC8V
• ASIN: B06XWTTC8V

Camino Real (New Directions Paperbook)

Now with a new introduction, the author's original Foreword and Afterword, the one-act play 10 Blocks on the Camino Real, plus an essay by noted Tennessee Williams scholar, Michael Paller. In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature―Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron―inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized and nearly destroyed the human spirit. Then, into this netherworld, the archetypal Kilroy arrives―a sailor and a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0811218066
• ASIN: 0811218066
• ISBN: 0811218066
• Manufacturer: New Directions

A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play―reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams' essay "The World I Live In." It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared―57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar la... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0811216020
• ASIN: 0811216020
• ISBN: 9780811216029
• Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Manufacturer: New Directions

The Signet Book of Short Plays

A new collection: 12 short plays by Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, Wendy Wasserstein, and more.This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition of American theater includes works from Kia Corthron, Daisy Foote, Horton Foote, Susan Glaspell, Greg Gunning, David Ives, William Saroyan, Shel Silverstein, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams. 

• ASIN: 0451529642
• ASIN: 0451529642
• ISBN: 0451529642
• Manufacturer: Signet

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The definitive text of this American classic―reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person."Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0811216012
• ASIN: 0811216012
• ISBN: 9780811216012
• Brand: Williams, Tennessee
• Manufacturer: New Directions

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Biography Category National Book Award Finalist 2015 Winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014'USA Today: 10 Books We Loved ReadingWashington Post, 10 Best Books of 2014 The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393351653
• ASIN: 0393351653
• ISBN: 0393351653
• Brand: W W Norton Co Inc
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Four Plays (Signet Classics)

A collection of four plays from the master of twentieth-century American drama includes Orpheus Descending, in which a nomadic guitar player falls in love with a storekeeper's wife only to find his life plagued by violence when the townspeople turns against them. Original.

• ASIN: 0451529146
• ASIN: 0451529146
• ISBN: 0451529146
• Brand: Brand: Signet Classics
• Manufacturer: Signet Classics

Three By Tennessee: Sweet Bird of Youth, The Rose Tattoo, The Night of the Iguana

Three classic plays from the preeminent American playright are presented in this collection that examines the power of love and the limits of evil.

• ASIN: 0451529081
• ASIN: 0451529081
• ISBN: 0451529081
• Manufacturer: Signet Classics

Moon River: The Very Best of Andy Williams

Moon River: The Very Best Of Andy

• UPC: 12527145
• Rating: 5.0

Very Best of Don Williams (CD)

EU collection from the veteran Country icon. His straightforward yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones, and an imposing build earned him the nickname quot;The Gentle Giantquot; of Country. Features 16 tracks including his signature tune,

• UPC: 138988541

The Very Best Of Don Williams (CD)

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• UPC: 29149700

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Very Best of [CD]

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Very Best of [CD] 506014349584

• UPC: 170641350

Best of Paul Williams (CD)

This 2008 comp collects the most stirring songs (and huge hits when borrowed by other artists) that made Paul famous: Weve Only Just Begun; You and Me Against the World; An Old Fashioned Love Song;

• UPC: 123782725

The Very Best Of Andy Williams (CD)

2007 edition of the Easy Listening crooners excellent UK compilation now including the new version of The Most Wonderful Time of the Year as featured in a popular Christmas TV ad in Britain. Since the

• UPC: 28266320

John Williams Plays Bach (CD)

Sony Classical is pleased to announce another ten releases in its increasingly comprehensive series of Classical Masters. These new budget-priced releases contain classic recordings, many of them newly remastered, by some of the most celebrated

• UPC: 267783099

Best of Play Bach

Anthology of the jazz inflected recordings of Loussiers Play Bach Trio, taken from the series of albums that Loussier released in the 1960s and

• UPC: 29284809

The Best Of Melvin Williams

His name has been synonymous with gospel music for nearly 50 years first as a member of the legendary Williams Brothers, then as a solo artist. Now, Melvin has put together this collection of his

• UPC: 31519108
• Rating: 1.0

Let The Music Play: The Best Of Shannon (CD)

Much of the music by this dance-floor diva has been out of print for years, and completely unavailable in the CD era. So this is long overdue: The best from her 80s heyday and 90s

• UPC: 32038136

Tennessee WILLIAMS, Henry HEWES / Best Plays 1962-1963 First Edition

• UPC: 163635554723
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 50 USD

Tennessee WILLIAMS / The Best One-Act Plays of 1940 First Edition 1941

• UPC: 163662090787
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 400 USD

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS,TELEGRAM TO FROM JULIA,SEPTEMBER 17 1945,BEST WISHES FOR PLAY

• UPC: 233542832514
• Category: Other Theater Memorabilia
• Price: 75 USD

THE BEST PLAYS OF 1944-1945, EDITED BY BURNS MANTLE (ExLib)

• UPC: 372932329131
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 8 USD

Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre Second Series Complete (NoDust)

• UPC: 143515779577
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 19 USD