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Moldawer, Kate, 580
“Moment in a Room, A” (Williams), 247–48
Monroe, Marilyn, 320
“Morgenlied” (Williams), 457–58
Morocco, TW’s trip to, 170–71
Morosco Theatre (New York), 310, 455
Mosher, Gregory, 597
Mr. Moon (dog), 267
Murray, Peg, 530–31, 532
Murrow, Edward R., 313
Mutilated, The
(Williams), 442, 474–75, 480
Myra (char.), 17, 18, 19, 46, 335
My Secret Life
(Dalí), 166
Nantucket, TW in, 106–10, 112, 460
Nathan, George Jean, 5, 8–9, 146
Nation
, 439, 482
“Negative, The” (Williams), 593
Neighborhood Playhouse (New York), 14
Nembutal, 510
Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process
(Kubie), 348
New Directions, 82, 298, 420, 432, 454, 485, 503, 582
Newlin, Jeanne, and TW’s literary estate, 595
Newman, Paul,
382
, 385, 389
New Orleans, La., TW in, 69–71, 73, 79–80, 83, 99–104, 279–80
New Republic
, 32–33, 61–62, 64, 273, 321, 477, 567
Newsday
, 569
Newsweek
, 343, 472, 492, 566
New Theatre (New York), 530
New Wave playwrights, 441
New World Festival of the Arts, 579
New York
, 567
New York Daily Mirror
, 215
New York Daily News
, 164, 273, 439, 567
New York Drama Critics Circle Award, 438
New Yorker
, 66, 343, 369, 392, 412, 472
Williams Estate shenanigans exposed in, xv
New York Herald Tribune
, 164, 210, 273, 274, 311, 392, 440, 472
New York Journal-American
, 215
New York Post
, 215, 273, 274, 276, 311, 320, 343, 371, 392, 439, 483, 566–67
TW’s letter about his father published in, 352–53
New York Times
, xiv, 33, 64, 136, 187, 215, 216–17, 221, 273, 275–76, 369, 392, 406, 409, 410, 439, 482, 492, 521, 530, 547, 553, 554, 560, 572, 579, 588, 598, 665
n
, 668
n
, 714
n
Barton’s attack on TW in, 532–33
Kazan’s article on
Streetcar
censorship in, 231–32
Kazan’s
Camino Real
essay in, 272
Kazan’s statement on Communist Party published in, 252
TW’s tribute to Bankhead in, 323–24
New York Times Book Review
, 436
Nichols, Lewis, 64
Nichols, Mike, 441
Nicklaus, Frederick,
450
, 457
poetry of, 453–54
TW’s letters to, 452
TW’s relationship with, 449–50, 453–54, 459–60, 462, 466
Night Music
(Odets), 22
Night of the Iguana, The
(film), 440, 466
Night of the Iguana, The
(Williams), 377, 412, 413–15, 420, 428–29
Bowden and, 422–23, 424–25, 428, 433, 435
Broadway opening of, 436–37
Chicago reviews of, 432–33
Chicago tryout of, 431–36
Corsaro and, 411–13, 415, 416, 422–24, 426–28, 435, 436, 437
Davis in, 425–29, 433–36, 437–38
Hepburn and, 414, 424–25
Kazan and, 435, 436
Leighton in, 425, 426, 427, 428, 436, 437
New York Drama Critics Circle Award of, 438
New York reviews of, 437, 439, 440
O’Neal in, 426, 427,
430
, 433–35, 437, 440
as portrait of TW’s inner world, 439–40
Rochester tryout for, 427–28
success of, 437
as TW’s last Broadway hit, 436
writing of, 396, 416, 417, 421, 433
“Night of the Iguana, The” (Williams; short story), 412–13, 415, 438–39, 690
n
“Nightride” (Barton), 532
1950s:
anti-Communist hysteria in, 219–20, 248–49, 251–53
homophobia in, 222–23, 258
rise of conformity in, 220–21, 225
suppression of dissent in, 254–55, 258
1960s, 396, 397
counterculture in,
see
counterculture
New York theater in, 477
theatrical responses to, 475–77
Nixon, Richard, 219
No Man Is an Island
(Merton), 491
Nonno (char.), 414, 421, 438–39
Not About Nightingales
(Williams), 16
Notebook of Trigoin, The
(Williams), 717
n
Notebooks
(Williams), xiii, 68, 279, 588, 621
n
“Not Waving but Drowning” (Smith), 456
O’Connor, Flannery, 258
Odets, Clifford, 1, 22, 65, 130, 185, 210, 275, 342, 622
n
, 644
n
Off-Broadway, 477, 482
Oh, Coward!
(musical), 531
Old Children
(Carroll), 541
“Old Men Go Mad at Night” (Williams), 496
Olivier, Laurence, 196, 656
n
“On a Streetcar Named Success” (Williams), 155
O’Neal, Patrick, 426, 427,
430
, 433–35, 437, 440
One Exception, The
(Williams), 584
O’Neill, Eugene, 20, 22, 68
On the Waterfront
(film), 262, 291
Open Theatre, 476
Orpheus Descending
(Williams), 281, 315, 329–36, 342, 677
n
failure of, 345
Kazan and, 289–91, 679
n
–80
n
moral atrophy of characters in, 330, 331
quest for redemption in, 332–33
reviews of, 343
revivals of, 596
see also
Battle of Angels
(Williams);
Fugitive Kind, The
(film)
Orton, Joe, xiv, 476, 573
Osborne, John, 467
Out Cry
(Williams), 484, 514, 515
Broadway production of, 539
Chicago production of, 509–13
planned London production of, 514, 517, 520, 539
see also
Two-Character Play, The
(Williams)
Page, Geraldine, 276, 514
in
Clothes for a Summer Hotel
, 561,
564
, 567
in
Summer and Smoke
, 258, 385, 650
n
in
Sweet Bird of Youth
,
382
, 385–87, 392, 399, 408
on TW’s vagueness with actors, 387–88
Palimpsest
(Vidal), 418
Pal Joey
(Rodgers and Hart), 22
Palmer, R. Barton, 227
Paolo (char.), 179–80
Paris Review
, 361–62, 636
n
Parker, Jerry, 569
Parrott, James, 80, 81
Parsons, Louella, 111
Pasadena Playbox, 629
n
–30
n
Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice, fund-raiser for, 526, 527–28
Pepina (char.),
see
Serafina (char.)
Period of Adjustment
(Williams), 386, 402–3
Kazan and, 396, 405–6, 412
reviews of, 412
Perret, Edmund, 712
n
Perry, G. D., 292–93
Peters, Margot, unfinished biography of TW by, 597–98
Philadelphia Inquirer
, 371
Philadelphia Story, The
(Barry), 20
Phillips, Margaret,
98
Picnic
(Inge), 406
Pinter, Harold, 441–42, 476
Piscator, Erwin, 96
“Place of Stone, A” (Williams),
see
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(Williams)
Playboy
, 85, 352, 482, 545
Playhouse Theatre (New York), 1–4, 14–15, 61
Poe, Edgar Allan, 356
Poem of Two, The
(Williams), 399
“Poker Night, The” (Williams),
see
Streetcar Named Desire, A
(Williams)
Poll, Martin, 569
Pollitt, Big Daddy (char.), 285, 287, 292, 293–95, 305–7, 308
Pollitt, Brick (char.), 94, 285, 287–89, 305–8, 662
n
as repressed homosexual, 304–5
see also
Brick (char., “Three Players of a Summer Game”)
Pollitt, Maggie (char.), 285, 287–88, 302, 307–10, 398
St. Just as model for, 162, 297–98
Pollock, Jackson, 93
Porter, Katherine Anne, 369, 371
“Portrait of a Girl in Glass” (Williams), 34–35, 54, 367–69
Portrait of a Madonna
(Williams), 133
Posada, José, 272
Powell, Margaret Lewis, 297, 672
n
Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Psychoanalysis
(Kubie), 349
prescription drugs, TW’s abuse of, 236, 279–80, 285, 314, 324, 349, 396, 420, 431–32, 447, 474, 478, 496, 501, 502, 507, 509, 510–11, 585, 587, 588, 704
n
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 567
Presse, Die
, 554
Previous Convictions
(Sayre), 221
Prick Up Your Ears
(Lahr), xiv
Princess Kosmonopolis (char.),
see
Kosmonopolis, Princess (char.)
Private View, A
(Selznick), 253
Problems for the Moose Lodge
(Williams)
see
House Not Meant to Stand, A
(Williams)
Production Code Administration (PCA),
see
Breen office
Prokosch, Frederic, 154
Promises, Promises
(Simon), 549
Prosser, William, 554
Provincetown, Mass., TW in, 88–93, 94, 136–38
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 466
Pulitzer Prize, 150, 160, 312
Purdy, James, 586
Purification, The
(Williams), 92
Quigley, Martin, 230
Quinn, Anthony, 551,
552
, 553
Quintero, José, 258, 385, 410, 561, 567, 650
n
Rader, Dotson,
524
, 534, 582
on Carroll, 535, 536–37, 541, 542, 544
on Dakin, 590
TW enlisted in antiwar movement by, 526–28
on TW’s counterculture explorations, 523–24
on TW’s “death act,” 555
TW’s letters to, 522, 523, 525–26
on TW’s paranoia, 515, 518
TW’s relationship with, 508, 522–23
on TW’s relationship with St. Just, 514, 515, 564, 566
Radio City Music Hall, 230
Rapper, Irving, 186
Rasky, Harry, TW’s letters to, 538–39
Rattigan, Terence, 476–77
Rawls, Eugenia, 467
Red Devil Battery Sign, The
(Williams), 547–50,
552
, 556, 597
Boston tryouts of, 551–53
out-of-town closing of, 552–53
reviews of, 551–52
revivals of, 549, 553–55
redemption, TW’s quest for, 29, 60, 183, 376, 446, 564, 602
in
Battle of Angels
, 19–20, 96–97
in
Glass Menagerie
, 66
in
Orpheus Descending
, 332–33
Reed, Rex, 515, 567
Reid, Kate, 475, 480,
481
Reitz, Bette, 79
Remember Me to Tom
(E. Williams), 38, 354, 359, 653
n
Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, 689
n
“Resemblance between a Violin Case and a Coffin, The” (Williams), 343
Rich, Frank, 572
Richardson, Tony, 467, 468, 470, 471–72
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 97
“Ripping off the Mother” (Williams), 526
Ritalin, 510
“Robert” (Williams), 538
Robertson, Cliff, 342
Rochester, N.Y., 427–28
Rockefeller, Nelson, 525
Rodriguez y Gonzalez, Amado “Pancho,”
102
, 496, 542,
542
character of, 101–2, 103
combustible personality of, 71
drinking by, 71
and
Glass Menagerie
film, 111–12
included in TW’s meetings with Wood, 111, 640
n
jealousy and bad behavior of, 102–3, 109, 110, 112–13, 123–24, 126, 137, 138, 140

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