Festival 2015
Year Tenn
Year Tenn was a celebration of our first decade, with highlights at Town Hall from previous years, featuring Mia Dillon, Keir Dullea, Lou Liberatore, and Mink Stole.
Productions of plays by Williams included:
Amez-Vous Ionesco?, a mad tea party attended by a self-adoring ballet dancer. (World Premiere)
The Parade, the moving, autobiographical one-act in a definitive outdoor staging.
The Remarkable Rooming-House of Madame LeMonde, in which baby-faced Mint, unable to use his legs, swings from hooks attached to his garret ceiling.
Suddenly Last Summer, the classic dramatic thriller starring Festival favorites Brenda Currin and Beth Bartley.
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, from South Africa. A tour-de-force for Jennifer Steyn as the unforgettable Flora Goforth, framed by Kabuki stagehands as Williams intended. In rep with…
The Day on Which a Man Dies, a fantasia on the death of Jackson Pollock reinvented by a South African cast.
Road to Paradise, Williams’ Ptown diaries adapted by Carson Efird into a dance-theater performance that kicked off our Festival in 2006.
New works included a musical adaptation of a Williams short play, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, and Canciónes de Tennessee Williams, a collection of Mexican songs Williams asked for in many of his plays. Audiences were tantalized with a staged reading of More Stars Than There Are in Heaven, a new play by John Guare based on the Tennessee Williams short story “The Mattress by the Tomato Patch.”
Artists from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Mexico, and throughout America, including Mississippi, North Carolina, New Orleans, Boston, New York, and Cape Cod, participated in Year Tenn.
Madame Lemonde & Aimez-Vous Ionesco?
Comic horrors await in the attic, where the original 2009 cast returns with their ruthlessly riotous “Madame LeMonde,” plus a short Williams play making its world debut in Provincetown.
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore
A sold-out highlight of 2013, Milk Train is a tour-de-force for Jennifer Steyn as the unforgettable Flora Goforth. Using Williams' original Kabuki stagehands, this surprising, witty, and elegiac play is not to be missed.
The Day on Which a Man Dies
This powerful fantasia on the death of Jackson Pollock wowed audiences in 2009, and is newly reinvented by a South African dream team cast, in repertory with Milk Train..
The Parade
Journey to the beach for a moving, autobiographical one-act that traces the poetic contours of Williams’ first true love and heartbreak in Provincetown.
Canciónes De Tennessee Williams
Mexican singer/actor Armando Arrocha serenades us with a rich mix of English words and Spanish songs from Tennessee Williams plays.
Suddenly Last Summer
Telling a story is dangerous, hearing a story is devastating in this thriller starring Festival favorites Brenda Currin as Violet Venable and Beth Bartley as Catharine Holly.
The Liberation of Colette Simple
Imported from London, this cabaret fantasy with live music pops the cork of a bottled-up shop-girl in “Primanproper” Massachusetts.
Road to Paradise
Dancing sailors and a young writer weave their bodies together over the water at the Boatslip to the heartfelt tune of Tennessee Williams.
More Stars than there are in Heaven
John Guare’s laugh-out-loud new play is an adaptation of a Tennessee Williams short story. Don’t miss the rare chance to share in the developing work from one of the world’s best-known playwrights.
Tenn @ Town Hall
Hear memorable excerpts from the world premieres we've presented over the last ten years, read by Festival stars, with music and special appearances. An event not to miss!
Williams 101
This entertaining 60-minute lesson on Tennessee Williams will brief you on the playwright, with handy insights about our lineup of performances.
The Hotel Plays
A funhouse of plays from The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival performed in the French Quarter of New Orleans.