5/29/2023 0 Comments John lahr tennessee williamsIn this majestic biography, former longtime New Yorker drama critic Lahr ( Honky-Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People, 2005, etc.) delineates the fears, paranoia and wrenching self-doubt that Williams transformed into his art. Arthur Miller called the play “a revolution” in theater Carson McCullers saw in it the beginning of “a renaissance.” But praise could never quash the demons that haunted Williams throughout his life. At 34, after a decade of failed productions, he had achieved the success for which he had been desperately striving. After 24 curtain calls, shouts of “Author, Author!” brought a “startled, bewildered, terrified, and excited” Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) to the stage. When The Glass Menagerie debuted on Broadway in 1945, the opening-night audience erupted in thunderous applause. The tormented life of a celebrated American playwright.
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