10th Annual Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE By Tennessee Williams Date: August 7-17th, 2025 (Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday at 3 pm) Location: The Grandel Theater STELLA SHOUTING CONTEST Date: Friday, August 8th at 5:30pm Location: Courtyard at The Grandel Description: Always a huge and humorous event, Festival goers will shout Stella’s name. The loudest and most compelling is voted by a jury of random and less than expert volunteers who will declare the winner. SCHOLAR PANELS Date: Saturday, August 9th from 9am to 12pm Location: The Grandel Theatre 9:00am Tennessee in St. Louis/Tennessee in New Orleans Between 1938 and 1940 Tennessee Williams made a transition from St. Louis to New Orleans. Experts discuss the influence of New Orleans on the work of Tennessee Williams, especially A Streetcar Named Desire. 10:00am Ten Years of Tennessee: A Conversation with Carrie Houk, Tom Mitchell, and Festival Guests Initiated as an act of love for St. Louis’s great playwright, the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis has a decade of accomplishments. Founder and Executive Artistic Director, Carrie Houk, talks about the festival’s beginnings, challenges, and accomplishments. 11:00am Streetcar Adapted for Opera and Film Tennessee Williams’s great play has inspired adaptations in film, onstage, and in the opera. We will learn about Andre Previn’s operatic adaptation, Novid Parsi’s dramatic retelling within an Iranian immigrant family, and the influence of Streetcar in Pedro Aldomovar’s film, “All About My Mother.” AUSTIN PENDLETON: A LIFE IN THE THEATRE Date: Saturday, August 9th at 2pm Location: The Grandel Theater Description: A conversation with the award-winning actor and director whose work has included productions of Tennessee Williams plays. Austin Pendleton's long career has been distinguished by performances on stage, film and television in roles that are distinctive and committed. As a director, Pendleton has staged productions on and off Broadway and at major theatres around the country and abroad. He is also an influential acting coach. Among other plays, Austin Pendleton has worked on Tennessee Williams’s Vieux Carre, Night of the Iguana, Camino Real, The Glass Menagerie, and Small Craft Warnings. Dennis Brown will host the conversation. WALKING TOUR of Tennessee’s Central West End Date: Sunday, August 10th at 9am Location: The Link Auditorium Description: The Williams family first settled in the Central West End and the neighborhood became important to Tennessee’s work. Beginning and ending at The Link Auditorium, this walking tour will visit neighborhood sites that relate to his life and writing. Along the way, we will hear Williams’s own words describing familiar locations. The tour will end with a READING of “God in the Free Ward: A newly published story written in 1934 about Anna Wilkins, hospitalized with a puzzling illness, that reveals Tennessee Williams’s feelings for his sister Rose before her confinement in a mental hospital. TW TRIBUTE PERFORMANCE: Streetcar and Beyond Date: Sunday, August 10th at 7pm Location: The Grandel Theater Description: A special evening of readings, song, dance and music celebrating the work of Tennessee Williams in collaboration with Opera Theatre St. Louis.

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