WashU is proud to present Thursday Nights at the Museum, a weekly series featuring thought-provoking programming, extended museum hours, and activities.
Tennessee Williams spent 20 years of life in St. Louis. His relationship with the city was famously fraught, but also more nuanced than the popular narrative would suggest. Join us for this look at Williams’s life in St. Louis, what he loved about it, why he struggled here, and the freedom he ultimately found in St. Louis’s sister city of New Orleans. The program will start with a short presentation by Tom Mitchell, Festival Scholar for the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, followed by a panel conversation that looks both at Williams’s life and artistic interpretations of one of his most famous works, A Streetcar Named Desire. The program will be punctuated with short performances and readings that bring Williams’s work to life.
Presented in collaboration with the Tennessee Williams Festival and Opera Theatre St. Louis.