TENNESSEE WILLIAMS ANNUAL REVIEW 2024

Coming March 2024   Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2024 published by The Historic New Orleans Collection softcover • 6" × 9" • 160 pp.8 color imagesISSN 1097-6035ISBN 978-0-917860-92-8 I went out drinking that night in the company of friends that were mine,not yours,and when I returned after midnight, a telephone call let me knowthat you had died at eleven. —from “The Final Day of Your Life,” by Tennessee Williams Appearing for the first time in print, Tennessee Williams’s moving poem “The Final Day of Your Life” describes the playwright’s last visit with Frank Merlo, his life companion of nearly 15 years. Midcentury discrimination kept their loving, turbulent same-sex relationship out of the public eye, but in private Williams could pen his conflicted grief in straightforward language. Inside the issue, scholars explore a little-known painting by Williams and highlight new biographical material, and a treasure trove of essays on inventive stage productions show the playwright’s work