ORPHEUS DESCENDING remains painfully relevant. Tennessee Williams’ southern gothic play intertwines wisps of Greek myth with the racist Mississippi of the Jim Crow era. The lines are drawn, the ...

Theatre for a New Audience is currently presenting Tennessee Williams and Orpheus Descending- its first production of a play by Tennessee Williams and the final production of TFANA’s 22-23 Season.

It's gotten to the point with the barebones Oakland Theater Project that everything the company touches, whether it's a classic or an experimental new play, is golden in one way or another. In the ...

With a guitar and a smirk, Val Xavier brings a sexy, hip-swaying energy to a rigidly conservative small Southern town. After spending a night in jail, he looks for work at a store run by Lady Torrance ...

“Orpheus Descending” is a play filled with desperate characters in desperate situations. In this 1957 Southern Gothic potboiler from Tennessee Williams, a small Mississippi town is strung tight with ...

What, then, does Harvey add to our understanding of a work that Peter Hall rescued from obscurity in 1988 in the expressionist staging of one's dreams (well, more aptly, nightmares, given its toxic ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Erica Schmidt’s revival of this Tennessee Williams play for Theater for a New Audience downplays the melodrama. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Clad in a ...

Critics are sharing their thoughts on TFANA's Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending. Performances began July 9 at Brooklyn's Polonsky Shakespeare Center for a run through ...

Over the course of his career, Tennessee Williams wrote thirty full length plays and a host of one-acts. Yet looking at the list of plays produced by local and regional theaters, you’d think he only ...