George Scudder

Goodman Theatre adds five performances of Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams, extending through October 28 with its current company intact. Chicago native director David Cromer's production stars Academy Award nominee Diane Lane as Alexandra del Lago, an aging Hollywood screen siren on a journey with an unlikely soul mate, and Broadway's Finn Wittrock as Chance Wayne, an ineffectual drifter whose youth and promise have begun to fade.

"We are all civilized people, which means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behavior,' writes Tennessee Williams in his introduction to Sweet Bird of Youth. Goodman Theatre opens its 2012/2013 Season with a major revival of Williams' 1959 play directed by Chicago native David Cromer. As previously announced, Academy Award nominee Diane Lane portrays Alexandra del Lago, an aging Hollywood screen siren on a journey with an unlikely soul mate, Chance Wayne (Broadway's Finn Wittrock)-an ineffectual drifter whose youth and promise have begun to fade.

"We are all civilized people, which means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behavior,' writes Tennessee Williams in his introduction to Sweet Bird of Youth. Goodman Theatre opens its 2012/2013 Season with a major revival of Williams' 1959 play directed by Chicago native David Cromer. As previously announced, Academy Award nominee Diane Lane portrays Alexandra del Lago, an aging Hollywood screen siren on a journey with an unlikely soul mate, Chance Wayne (Broadway's Finn Wittrock)-an ineffectual drifter whose youth and promise have begun to fade.

Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF (OST) celebrates the 100th birthday of American playwright Tennessee Williams through its popular free reading series, Three By Tenn. The three-part series continues with Williams' controversial and disturbing play, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, on Sunday, January 8th, 2012 at 7PM.

This month, Sweet Bird of Youth will be presented at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as will the popular Late-Night Cabaret series

Emmy Rossum and Sharon Lawrence will respectively play Juliet and Anything Goes' Reno Sweeney at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, running from July 6th through August 27th

Malcolm Gets, Matt Cavenaugh, Beth Fowler, Kerry Butler, and Kristine Nielsen--as well as Kathleen Turner in her theatrical directing debut--will be among the participating stars of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in MA, running from July 6th through August 27th