“The Parade” in THE JEWISH ADVOCATE

The playwright and his onstage persona

By Jules Becker – Monday September 17 2007

    Thanks to re-discovered and newly staged plays, the stature of Tennessee Williams as a playwright and a human being continues to rise.
Just a few seasons ago, Broadway and Boston premieres of his [...]

Love a “Parade”

 
By Rebecca M. Alvin
GateHouse News Service
Thu Jul 26, 2007, 02:01 PM EDT

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Orleans – By In 1940, a 29-year-old Tennessee Williams wrote “The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer.” More than 20 years later, the playwright [...]

“Parade” Finally Has Its Day – [Provincetown.com]

Ben Griessmeyer and Elliot Eustis.
”Parade” Finally Has Its Day
In the Hands of Shakespeare on the Cape
By Kahrin Deines
July 25th, 2007
Almost seventy years ago, Tennessee Williams fell in love in Provincetown. He was young, only twenty-nine at the time, at the beginning of his creative career, and still tentative in his identities as both a [...]

‘Boys Will Be Girls, and Girls Will Be Boys’ – In Newsweekly

William Henderson July 19, 2007

Boys will be girls and girls will be boys

GENDER-BENDING CASTING ON DISPLAY IN SUMMER SHAKESPEARE ON THE CAPE PRODUCTIONS

 

In 2005, its inaugural season, Shakespeare on the Cape performed in an experimental space at The Schoolhouse Gallery. Their productions of “Twelfth Night” and “A Midsummer [...]

“In Provincetown, a Lovesick Tennessee Williams Finds His Voice” – Provincetown Banner

Elliot Eustis (dancing) is the not-quite-unobtainable object of desire in Tennessee Williams’ “The Parade.” The Williams-like character Don is played by Ben Griessmeyer.

Tennessee Williams finds his voice
By Susan Rand Brown
Banner Correspondent
Like Eugene O’Neill a quarter century earlier, the young Tennessee Williams arrived in Provincetown in 1940 to hike the dunes and swim, [...]

“Parade” Captures Poignancy of Hope Passed By

     
“Parade” Captures Poignancy of Hope Passed By
By DEBBIE FORMAN
STAFF WRITER
July 14, 2007
PROVINCETOWN — Tennessee Williams’ poetic and lyrical dialogue, which created such beauty in his mature plays, skips languidly across his early one-act “The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer.” And the actors of Shakespeare on the Cape eloquently project [...]

FLASHBACK!! “The Parade” Premiere 2006 Provincetown

“The Parade” Premier 2006 Province Town
Originally uploaded by zookeeperwendy

So I found that my Mom had this photo on her Flickr account. Her username is “zookeeperwendy” if you’re interested– haha.
It’s funny to look back on this photo and try to imagine how I was feeling right then and there…
XO