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Elite Class Deconstructed with Rapier Thrusts in The Texas Repertory Theatre Co.'s Hay Fever

Edit Houston Press 18 May 2016
A A. Facebook-. Twitter -. More shares recommend reddit email -. -. The set-up. ... He had it all. Then came the romp Hay Fever, and the rest, as Coward might say, was only fireworks ... Fever was written after Coward had spent one dizzying weekend during his first trip to America with the acclaimed actress Laurette Taylor and her family of crazies ... Taylor never forgave Coward for being so perceptive – and so damned irreverent and funny ... $38 ... ....

Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker

Edit The New York Review of Books 13 Apr 2016
Jacob Lofman/Condé Nast Archive/Corbis. Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell at their farmhouse in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1937 ... For others, it’s the descent into alcoholism, and the sad final years holed up in Manhattan’s Volney Hotel. Pick your myth ... Vincent Sheean ... Certainly she struck a chord with the public ... Razors pain you; ... Parker loves Ethel Barrymore, she loves Laurette Taylor, she loves, sometimes, Sir J.M ... ....

TheatreUNI to present ‘The Glass Menagerie’ (University of Northern Iowa)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jan 2016
(Source. University of Northern Iowa). CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - TheatreUNI will present 'The Glass Menagerie' at 7.30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25; Friday, Feb. 26; Saturday, Feb. 27; Friday, March 4; Saturday, March 5; and at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb ... Tennessee William's 'The Glass Menagerie' is an enduring classic of American theatre. It premiered in a legendary production, starring Laurette Taylor as Amanda, in Chicago in 1944 ... (noodl....

Jane Fonda remembers Michael Jackson: 'I went skinny dipping with him'

Edit CNN 18 Oct 2015
4 ... Then the crew said, 'You don't understand ... 'Truth' ... for example, she talked about Laurette Taylor — and anyone who was alive to see Laurette Taylor in Glass Menagerie has seen as great a moment of acting as [there is] ... FONDA ... for example, she talked about Laurette Taylor, probably one of the great American actors of all time, and anyone who was alive to see Laurette Taylor in Glass Menagerie has seen as great a moment of acting as ... ....

Q&A;: Laura Linney, actor

Edit The Guardian 13 Jun 2015
‘Top of my bucket list? Do a musical. Learn to sing first’. Laura Linney. Photograph. Shooting Star /Eyevine. Rosanna Greenstreet. Saturday 13 June 2015 06.00 BST. Born in New York, Linney, 51, was raised in a single-parent family ... Her new film, Mr Holmes, is out on 19 June ... When were you happiest?. During this past year, enjoying my family ... To see Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie, and Jessica Tandy in A Streetcar Named Desire ... ....

How Tennessee Williams became the talk of Broadway

Edit The Guardian 19 Mar 2015
In an extract from Tennessee Williams ... 'That’s the second time in my life I’ve ordered room service' … Tennessee Williams. Photograph. Herb Snitzer/Getty Images. John Lahr ... Related ... “That’s the second time in my life I’ve ordered room service.” Embossed invitations went out, inviting Williams’s newfound society to meet “Mrs Edwina Williams, Miss Laurette Taylor and the Reverend Walter Dakin” over “tea and cocktails” at Sherry’s ... comments ... ....

Tennessee Williams biography by John Lahr depicts both monster and man

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 17 Jan 2015
Biography ... The 65-year old faded starlet Laurette Taylor is dragged from her five-year Actors Equity suspension ("for drunkenly disrupting and closing a play") to play Amanda Wingfield in the premier production of The Glass Menagerie....

Tennessee Williams review – John Lahr’s ‘compulsively readable’ biography

Edit The Guardian 29 Oct 2014
Sex and madness. the troubled playwright who released US theatre from its puritanical straitjacket. Tennessee Williams in 1970. Photograph. Getty Images ... he had a tendency to equate the two ... His idiom is defiantly symbolic ... Laurette Taylor shows up drunk for the opening night of Menagerie, vomiting into a bucket between scenes; Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead pop up playing raddled divas whose behaviour is worse offstage than on ... ....

Brilliant new biography of Tennessee Williams

Edit The Malta Independent 16 Oct 2014
When "The Glass Menagerie" opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was placed in the wings so she could throw up between scenes. Seated six rows from the stage was the 34-year-old playwright, Tennessee Williams, who was struck by Laurette Taylor's "supernatural quality on stage." ... The culmination of 12 years of work, "Tennessee Williams ...  ....

Excerpt from 'Tennessee Williams'

Edit Newsday 15 Oct 2014
William Inge, Carson McCullers, Robert Anderson, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Natalie Wood, Elia Kazan, and Joshua Logan among them ... As the lights faded out on Dowling, they faded in on Laurette Taylor as Amanda, the matriarch of the hapless Wingfield family, entering upstage into the apartment's dining room....

John Lahr's 'Tennessee Williams' spotlights the plays

Edit Newsday 15 Oct 2014
Travel deals. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, by John Lahr. W.W. Norton & Co., 765 pp., $39.95. John Lahr begins his fascinating new biography in medias res ... It's an appropriate place to start "Tennessee Williams ... Log in ... W.W ... Amanda is a barely disguised version of Williams' own mother, Edwina, who bristled with indignation when actress Laurette Taylor asked after the opening night of the Chicago tryout, "Well, Mrs ... ... . ....

Book review: John Lahr’s ‘Tennessee Williams’

Edit The Miami Herald 05 Oct 2014
Seated six rows from the stage was the 34-year-old playwright, Tennessee Williams, who was struck by Laurette Taylor’s “supernatural quality on stage.” When the final curtain came down, the cast took 24 curtain calls to thunderous applause, and Williams, wearing a gray flannel suit with a missing button, mounted the stage to repeated cries of “author, author.” ... The culmination of 12 years of work, Tennessee Williams ... ....

A Year with Kate: The Glass Menagerie (1973)

Edit IMDb 01 Oct 2014
Episode 40 of 52. In which Katharine Hepburn takes to TV to show that Laurette Taylor can eat her heart out ... When The Glass Menagerie premiered in 1944, Laurette Taylor’s performance as Southern ......
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