Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws & Other One-Act Plays

Reviews

"Mr. Williams is a master of the short play." — Clive Barnes, The New York Times

"Williams was always confronting the future; a shaman with a typewriter, he dug into the darkest depths of the American psyche in search of dramatic truths." — Randy Gener, American Theatre Magazine

"Now the Cats With Jeweled Claws is a loopy send-up of New York society, written in a gleefully absurdist mode." — Bruce Weber, The New York Times

"A Recluse and His Guest has remarkable language; indeed one listens for how the Master keeps showing up in late-career scripts." — Hilton Als, The New Yorker

"From Williams, it seems, there are treasures to be plundered still." — Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times

"Steps Must Be Gentle provides a tantalizing peek into Williams’s preoccupation with death, suicide, and creativity." — Tom Valeo, Chicago Reader

"The fact that This Is the Peaceable Kingdom takes place in New York puts a whole different spin on the play and gives the poetry a different kind of starkness." — Mallery Avidon, Brooklyn Rail

"The Strange Play and Ivan’s Widow make for intriguing theater, both in their own right and as a part of the legacy of Tennessee Williams—a playwright who prowled the world’s dark corners long before, and long after, he shone under the bright lights of Broadway." — Brad Rhine, The New Orleans Advocate

"I do not want to reveal too many of The Strange Play’s secrets—its embrace of a whimsical, ethereal, and, yes, strange, world is most pleasing when it is a surprise to the audience." — Bess Rowen, The Huffington Post

"You won’t forget Now The Cats with Jeweled Claws—I’ve seen quite a few late-period Williams curios but this mesmerizing 1981 piece may be the most demented of them all." — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post

"In A Recluse and His Guest, Williams skillfully breaks our hearts." — David Clark, OUT Magazine

"The Strange Play is delightful and bizarre." — Tyler Gillespie, Gambit (New Orleans)

"Williams was always confronting the future; a shaman with a typewriter, he dug into the darkest depths of the American psyche in search of dramatic truths." — Randy Gener, American Theatre

"The Demolition Downtown wrings laughter from the plight of a couple whose lives have been ruined by a new political order bent upon demolishing, literally and otherwise, the lives of its citizens." — Eric Marchese, Backstage, Los Angeles, Backstage, Los Angeles

"In A Recluse and His Guest, America’s most poetic playwright brings to life an entire relationship of depth and intimacy, from the first meeting to the last, in an astonishingly short amount of time." — Todd Stuart Phillips, One Man’s World