In celebrating Tennessee Williams' Birthday, we are once again hosting our annual short story competition that is open to everyone. Your original story must reference ''The Women of Tennessee Williams", which can be interpreted in an amorphous way, in order to be considered. Authors may choose to write a story about one of Williams' characters, one of the actresses who played a role in one of his plays or films or a family member. All interested writers are invited to…

The founders of the Tennessee Williams Museum are hosting a fundraiser to help support its year-long events and programming. To kick off the Tennessee Williams Birthday Celebration Month, the founders of the Museum will once again open their marvelous home in order to host a fundraiser to help support its events and programming.  All proceeds assist with funding not only the annual poetry, short story and painting contests, it also supports our birthday party at the museum and additional acquisitions…

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) 108 minute run time This classic film was adapted from Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.  It stars Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives. Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of the wife, Maggie.  His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. The film was nominated…

The Migrants (1974) 90 minute run time This adaptation by Landford Wilson of Tennessee Williams' story is about the plight of immigrant farm workers whose only crime was being born poor.  It has a stellar cast including Cloris Leachman, Sissy Spacek, Ron Howard and Cindy Williams.  They are a simple family, a family that worked hard, loved each other and hoped that their hard work would produce a better life for them.  And in the eyes of the son lay…

KWAHS is offering a Curator-led tour of the Tennessee Williams Museum. KWAHS is offering a Curator-led tour of the Tennessee Williams Museum. Led by Curator, Dennis Beaver, the tour features a detailed look into the filming of The Rose Tattoo in Key West. The tour furnishes visitors a chance to learn more about the objects on display in the museum, and how they relate to Williams. Reservations (maximum 25 people per tour) are required. KWAHS is offering a Curator-led tour…

The Rose Tattoo (1955) 116 minute run time This film was adapted from the Tennessee Williams' Tony Award winning Broadway play of the same name.  It stars Burt Lancaster and Anna Magnani, who won an Oscar for her performance.  Its local Key West premiere was held at the San Carlos Institute in 1956.  Most of the filming was done in a Key West house next to the home that Tennessee Williams owned for thirty-four years.  The film provides a unique…

KWAHS is offering a Curator-led tour of the Tennessee Williams Museum.  Led by Curator, Dennis Beaver, the tour features a detailed look into Tennessee Williams’ life in Key West.  The tour furnishes visitors a chance to learn more about the objects on display in the museum, and how they relate to Williams. Reservations (maximum 25 people per tour) are required. KWAHS is offering a Curator-led tour of the Tennessee Williams Museum. Led by Curator, Dennis Beaver, the tour features a…

This Property is Condemned (1955) 110 minute run time This dramatic film was adapted from the 1946 one-act play of the same name by Tennessee Williams.  It stars Natalie Wood, nominated for a Golden Globe, Robert Redford and Charles Bronson.  Wood plays a pretty town flirt who finds herself stuck in a small Mississippi town and very much attracted to the handsome stranger played by Redford.  He works for the railroad which provided much of the economic base for the…