Olympia Dukakis
From Streetcar to Milk Train
 Academy Award-Winning actress (Moonstruck), Olympia Dukakis has played Williams’ roles for 6 decades: Stella in Streetcar in 1957 summer stock, Maxine in The Night of the Iguana at Williamstown; Serafina in The Rose Tattoo
(5 times in 30 years); Glass Menagerie's Amanda at Trinity Rep; Flora Goforth in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore at Williamstown in 1996 and this year at the Hartford Stage. Her Provincetown program reveals the depth of her relationship with Williams' words.
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Our 3rd year celebrates
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
& THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE
THEATRE - MUSIC
DANCE - FILM - FUN
Each year festival events advance a theme related to Williams. Over four days the 2008 Festival will
share the playwright's healing vision of love and such well-known texts as The Rose Tattoo, and Camino Real, as well as the world premiere production of Williams’ erotic Green Eyes.
DanceLoop Chicago will perform Lorita! a danced version of a TW short story about two repressed businesswomen and their parrot. New work inspired by Williams at the Festival will include the Classic Theatre of San Antonio production of Rancho Pancho written by Gregg Barrios -- a portrait of Williams and his Mexican partner, Pancho Rodriguez.
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The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View
A Boston World Premiere for Tennessee Williams
Tuesday, September 16, 8:00 pm, at the BCA Plaza Theatre in Boston there’s a taste of what's cooking in Provincetown: The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View, Tennessee Williams' first version of The Rose Tattoo. This short play -- a hot Sicilian widow on a date with a truck driver – will be directed by festival curator David Kaplan and feature Nancy Cassaro (the original Tina in Tony N Tina's Wedding) alongside noted Boston-area actor Larry Coen.
Seating is limited. Get Tickets and Information Here
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
from NYC's TACT
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT) of New York will bring to Provincetown the love scenes from this season's critically aclaimed production of Tennessee Williams' Eccentricities of a Nightingale. Eccentricities is a rarely staged 1951 re-thinking of the story of Alma Winemiller from Summer and Smoke.
In his review this May in the New York Times, Christopher Isherwood noted that Mary Bacon's performance as Alma Winemiller "rivals anything I saw this season for complexity, delicacy and lucid truth." 
The New Yorker wrote "Mary Bacon, who, along with the other topnotch performers in the cast, might as well be teaching a master class on Williams." The production arrives with Ms. Bacon and Todd Gearheart as John Buchanan, the handsome young doctor next door for whom Alma longs.
The Festival will also present Summer and Smoke in Lee Hoiby's opera setting performed by the New England Conservatory of Music. The opportunity to see these two variations on a theme alongside each other is a defining experience of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.
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