Tennessee Williams’s “Blue Song”
The famous American playwright left St. Louis, but St. Louis never left him.
Fall 2021
Tennessee Williams’s “Blue Song”
The famous American playwright left St. Louis, St. Louis never left him.
You Can Go Home Again
What immediately stands out is Schvey’s utter command of his material. The book will appeal to theatergoers and scholars interested in one of America’s greatest playwrights and his complicated relationship to a city he called home for some two decades, St. Louis.
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