Thanks Linda Ryan for the link. A review by the WSJ Theatre Critic of John Lahrs new Tennessee Williams biography (which I would like to read *now*.) He enjoys the book, but seems to use it, much to my annoyance, as a jumping-off point to his own opinions of Williams. Basically, that people (including Lahr, who he seems to feel secretly surely agrees with him,) are wrong if they think hes one of the greatest playwrights, that he wrote the same play over and over, and only one, maybe two are masterpieces (Glass Menagerie and Streetcar, of course,) and evidence of this is that those are the only two that have been successfully revived on Broadway. (Never mind that thats not really true, and that some of that has to do with the quality of the other revivals--London, notably, has had a number of extremely successful revivals of his other works over the past 30 years.) commentarymagazine/article/tennessee-one-step/
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 08:37:56 +0000