9 posts tagged the glass menagerie

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired two unpublished letters written by playwright Tennessee Williams to his friend and former intimate Pancho Rodriguez Gonzalez, who inspired the character of Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947).

For those of you who look forward to Steppenwolf’s Young Adult season, you may remember my last blog post when I just couldn’t decide what it was going to be? Well I am ready to announce the season! We are opening with Tennessee Williams‘ The Glass Menagerie directed by our very own Yasen Peyankov

Brenda Blethyn did not disappoint last night in The Glass Menagerie. It was a good performance but I did get a bit irritated by members of the audience who seemed to think that because it was Ms. Blethyn they had to laugh at just about every line she uttered.

Brenda Blethyn did not disappoint last night in The Glass Menagerie. It was a good performance but I did get a bit irritated by members of the audience who seemed to think that because it was Ms. Blethyn they had to laugh at just about every line she uttered.

I should know about the importance of trying to get a better work-life balance, but like Quentin Letts - who was profiled in the Independent on Sunday recently until the headline “He’s got more columns than the Colosseum” - I work hard, player harder, and don’t sleep enough.

Whoo what a weekend so far! The Ours and I drowned our sorrows at Aussie Dan's leaving party on Friday night. He's been living in Ireland for nearly nine years. Until his flight to Australia this evening that is. We'll miss him - he's a great friend, funny, kind and intelligent. Safe home Dan.

The Lyceum’s Spring 2008 season has kicked-off with Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, directed by Jemima Levick and running from 11 January to 9 February. First staged in Chicago in 1944, Menagerie… is set in St Louis, Missouri during the Great Depression and deals with the troubled relationship

One of the New Year resolutions I listed the other day was to try to get out-of-town more. The Sunday paper I write for is, of course, called a “national newspaper” but it’s all-too-easy for London-based critics to stick close to home, since there’s invariably so much to see here and in any case, newspapers prefer their journalists not to run up big expense bills travelling.

Christian vs. Christ-Follower Commercial Parody November 29th, 2007 Yesterday I wrote in reference to some negative aspects of the seeker-friendly church model. Don’t infer that to mean I’m anti-seeker-friendly church. I’m not.