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    Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter...
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  • The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival is an annual five-day literary festival in the city of New Orleans. The festival is dedicated to...
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    playwright Tennessee Williams. Beauty Is the Word is Tennessee Williams' first play. The 12-page one-act was written in 1930 while Williams was a freshman...
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    Blanche DuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire. The character...
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  • February 1994) was a Russian-British actress who was a close friend of Tennessee Williams. As co-trustee of the trust which he set up for his sister, she became...
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  • theatre production of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana at the Noël Coward Theatre opposite Clive Owen. In Dublin, Williams appeared at the Gate...
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    Stanley Kowalski is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. Stanley lives in the working-class Faubourg Marigny neighborhood...
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  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (category Plays by Tennessee Williams)
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1955 American three-act play by Tennessee Williams. The play, an adaptation of his 1952 short story "Three Players of a Summer...
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  • Reading Series (2001) 15th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival (2001) 16th Annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival (2002)...
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  • A Streetcar Named Desire (category Plays by Tennessee Williams)
    A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. The play dramatizes the experiences...
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  • Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo (2019). On television, she is known for her roles...
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    John Williams (January 29, 1778 – August 10, 1837) was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman, operating primarily out of Knoxville, Tennessee, in...
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    2006, the Tennessee Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling stating that Williams's heirs—son, Hank Williams Jr, and daughter, Jett Williams—have the...
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    Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Williams played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. He was drafted 22nd overall in the 2019...
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    legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives. He is of African-American, English and Welsh descent. In November 1990, Williams was a contestant...
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    by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish...
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    both in 1946. He returned to Broadway as Stanley Kowalski in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), a role he reprised in the 1951...
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    Killer Joe, written by Tracy Letts. She has performed in many of Tennessee Williams' plays, including Summer and Smoke, The Gnädiges Fräulein, The Milk...
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    chose to star alongside Amanda Plummer in the Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' The Two-Character Play that played to critical acclaim at the New...
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    acclaim for his role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire, a role that he originated successfully...
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  • recognized dramatic playwrights of the mid-20th century, including Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Robert Anderson and Arthur Kopit. Wood's agency, Liebling-Wood...
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    JaCorey Williams (born June 12, 1994) is an American basketball player for BC Dubai of the ABA League. He played college basketball at Middle Tennessee State...
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  • Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh is a book by John Lahr first published in 2014. It is a biography of Tennessee Williams. It was published...
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    Award in 1951 for his performance alongside Maureen Stapleton in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo. His other theater credits include Mister Roberts...
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    The Vengeance of Nitocris (category Works by Tennessee Williams)
    "The Vengeance of Nitocris" is a short story by Tennessee Williams, written when Williams was 16 years old. It was published in Weird Tales in its August...
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    Elia Kazan (category Williams College alumni)
    Desire by Tennessee Williams, both of which were also successful. Kazan's wife, Molly Thacher, the reader for the Group, discovered Williams and awarded...
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  • The Glass Menagerie (category Plays by Tennessee Williams)
    The Glass Menagerie is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong...
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  • relationship with Williams. He entitled his lecture, "The Other Side of Tennessee Williams". He was a featured speaker at the Tennessee Williams Literary Fest...
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  • Theatre Biography – Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (2015) Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography – Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage...
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    1930s, the house was opened to boarders and for a short time a young Tennessee Williams lived there. Restoration to the original Spanish Colonial style did...
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