Tennessee Williams | Ryan C Tittle

May 106 min read

Marilyn Monroe: The Death of Arthur Miller

Whenever I contemplate who America’s dramatic masters are, my answer is always Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee. The reason for this is...

Apr 127 min read

Christopher Durang (1949-2024)

Christopher Durang was a playwright and actor from Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the plays Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony...

Oct 6, 20234 min read

Soundbite Obits

Last week, like countless others, I was moved by the death of Michael Gambon, a British actor who did amazing things onstage and off. As...

Aug 4, 20234 min read

An Actor's Journal- Part 3

To appropriate a quote from Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes—there’s Godot—so quickly!” But also, sometimes, life just happens, and you...

Apr 28, 202310 min read

A Quarter Century at the Table Writing Plays

On March 28, 1997, I sat down at my desk and wrote a one act play. It wasn’t the first play I wrote exactly, but it was the first one to...

Jan 13, 202316 min read

The Juvenilia: First Words

Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...

Dec 30, 202213 min read

2022 in Perspective

Greetings as we ring out the old and ring in the new! I want to thank those of you who have supported the new website and Facebook page...

Nov 25, 20226 min read

Favorites Part 3: Writing

For the next few weeks, I'll be sharing my favorite works of art. These are not necessarily my answers to "What is the best movie/tv...

Sep 2, 202216 min read

On (Not) Being Influenced by Tennessee Williams

I don’t know whether I’ve always championed small town papers because I value their content or whether it was because I happened to be...