August 30, 2023
Celebrating Tennessee Williams
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The eighth annual Tennessee Williams Festival celebrates the work of the great American playwright and his time spent in St. Louis By Wendy Todd Tennessee Williams wrote some of the most well-known plays of our time. A number of them, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “The Glass Menagerie,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ” and “Suddenly Last Summer” were adapted into feature films starring some of the era’s most notable actors. His legacy of works, that feature innovative prose and provocative subject matter, lives on as an example of American literary classics. Fans of Williams will get an opportunity to join in on the celebration of his work at the upcoming eighth annual Tennessee Williams Festival. The festival was created by Carrie Houk, who also serves as its executive director, and
celebrates the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner’s work and life in St. Louis, where he lived for 20 years and was buried in the Calvary Cemetery in North County. She wanted to highlight the playwright in the city where he’d spent so much time and prepared him to develop his distinguished work. Houk created the festival believing that grand recognition for Williams in a city that had been his home was long overdue. “I had wondered for years why St. Louis didn’t have a Tennessee Williams festival or didn’t honor him in any way,” Houk said. “He spent almost 20 formative years in our city and his time here influenced so much of his work. After producing a sell-out run of ‘Stairs to the Roof ’ in 2014, I realized that it was time in St. Louis to bring this to fru-
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ition. New Orleans, Provincetown, Clarksdale, Columbus and Mississippi all had a long-standing festival. I felt the time was ripe for one to be established here.” The festival, themed “University City Years,” kicks off Sept. 7 with performances of his play, the Southern gothic, “Suddenly See ‘CELEBRATING’ page 2
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