When “The Glass Menagerie” opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was placed in the wings so she could ...

Now John Lahr, a former theatre critic for The New Yorker and son of Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion himself, has written the definitive biography, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh. He ...