In 1947, Tennessee Williams unveiled A Streetcar Named Desire to an American audience with fresh memories of war and all that comes after. He wrote it explicitly for the time, and yet, nearly 80 years ...

Tennessee Williams is one of America's great playwrights and screenwriters. But before he wrote masterpieces like "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire," Williams wrote radio plays. One ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Long before “A Streetcar Named Desire,” before “The Glass Menagerie," before “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Tennessee Williams wrote a searing prison drama, “Not About Nightingales," which ...

In early 1947, the playwright Tennessee Williams wrote to the producer Irene Selznick because Elia Kazan, who had been tapped to direct the Broadway première of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” was balking ...