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Raisin in the Sun at Williamstown Theater Festival, Aziza Barnes’ BLKS at MCC, Inda Craig-Galvan’s Black Superhero Magic Mama at The Geffen Theater, the Universes’ Uni/Son, inspired by the poetry of August Wilson at OSF and Shakespeare’s Macbeth at Denver Center for the Performing Arts.įor over six decades, Williamstown Theatre Festival, recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and the Commonwealth Award for Achievement, has brought emerging and professional theatre artists together to create a thrilling summer festival of premiere work alongside fresh, new productions of the western canon, accompanying cultural events including Community Works and Late-Night Cabarets, and readings and workshops of new plays. Gun and Powder at Signature Theater, Lorraine Hansberry’s His recent directing projects include, Baum and Cheri’s The Brother/ Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’sīella: An American Tall Tale, as well as his own plays,īarbecue world premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theater and The Public Theater, respectively. Slave Play, Nikkole Salter and Dania Guiria’s Off Broadway: He directed the world premieres of Jeremy O. Robert O'Hara has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies and the Herb Alpert Award. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in 1940 for his play BATTLE OF ANGELS, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 forĬat on a Hot Tin Roof.

He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman.

A streetcar named desire by tennessee williams