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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 week ago

Tennessee Williams' first hit glimmers at Lakewood Center for the Arts * Oregon ArtsWatch

Lakewood Center for the Arts' production of The Glass Menagerie faithfully adapts Williams' 80-year-old semi-autobiographical play about an emotionally repressed Southern family struggling with communication and social decline.
fromVulture
4 months ago

Re-Encountering Bess Wohl's Liberation on Broadway

What happens when a group of people gather in a room and really listen to each other? That may sound like an ordinary enough act, and as you walk into the James Earl Jones Theater, you might find yourself deceived by David Zinn's 1970s basic gym basement of a set, or by Susannah Flood's hand-holding introductory address to the audience-fear not a long running time, she says, standing in for the playwright Bess Wohl, all those six-hour plays are by men who didn't have children.
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