The essays in this volume were all written by David Kaplan in
conjunction with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival,
of which he is the curator and a co-founder. They are organized in two
sections. The first section consists of ten essays written for each year
of the Provincetown Festival, most included in the Festival catalogue
for the year indicated. Those essays focus on each year's thematic
selection of Williams plays and other dance, music, and theater events
as well as some aspect of Williams plays not always obvious in the text
but essential to understanding the plays in production. The second
section includes seven occasional essays, written for productions of
Williams plays associated with the Festival. All the essays relate, in
one way or another, to the story of what happened to the playwright
during the last twenty years of his life and how his reputation is
evolving since his death.
