In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche DuBois leaves her secret past in small town Mississippi and arrives in New Orleans, a place full of temptation. In “Orpheus Descending,” which premiered on ...

Do you know the story of Orpheus, the Greek myth about a guy with a god-like gift for music? He was so talented that his songs tamed wild beasts and made stones weep. And when his wife died from a ...

There’s a moment in ORPHEUS DESCENDING when Valentine Xavier, tall, lanky, with enough charisma to make a statue blush, enters a dry goods store in a dying Mississippi town. You just know something is ...

The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans will kick off its tenth anniversary season with Orpheus Descending, a searing tale of passion, isolation, and rebellion set in the Mississippi ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Erica Schmidt’s revival of this Tennessee Williams play for Theater for a New Audience downplays the melodrama. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Clad in a ...

Orpheus Descending delivers the goods you’d expect from a Tennessee Williams play: lots of tragically trashy characters expressing their feelings via long monologues and quick quips, heavy use of ...

What, then, does Harvey add to our understanding of a work that Peter Hall rescued from obscurity in 1988 in the expressionist staging of one's dreams (well, more aptly, nightmares, given its toxic ...

With a guitar and a smirk, Val Xavier brings a sexy, hip-swaying energy to a rigidly conservative small Southern town. After spending a night in jail, he looks for work at a store run by Lady Torrance ...

“Orpheus Descending,” a rarely revived play about the treatment of outsiders, has only become more meaningful for its star and its director. By Sarah Bahr Sarah Bahr sat in on a rehearsal in Brooklyn ...

Critics are sharing their thoughts on TFANA's Off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending. Performances began July 9 at Brooklyn's Polonsky Shakespeare Center for a run through ...

“Orpheus Descending,” a great big louche mess of a play by Tennessee Williams, from 1957—revived at Theatre for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, directed by Erica Schmidt—kicks into gear ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — There’s always a whole lot of gossip going on. That’s on stage and back stage. And that’s any time Tennessee Williams is in the house. And he is for sure at home here. At The ...