![]() ![]() Lahr, theater critic and writer for the “New Yorker” for 21 years, talked about how he came to write the Williams biography when there are already many Williams biographies. ![]() He wrote some 70 plays including masterpieces such as “The Glass Menagerie”, “Streetcar Named Desire”, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, “The Night of the Iguana”, “The Rose Tattoo” and “Summer and Smoke”. Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911, adopted the name Tennessee early in his writing career. She asked short, pointed questions and let Lahr warm to his subject. Lahr and Martha Lavey, “Steppenwolf” artistic director, were seated on a stage dressed for the cluttered Irish bachelor-hoarder’s apartment for the current Steppenwolf production, Conor McPherson’s “The Night Alive.” Lavey was prepared with her own advance copy of the book stuffed with fuchsia post-it notes. ![]()
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