A Drama Desk-, Lucille Lortel-, and BAFTA-nominated director and writer of works for stage and screen, Erica Schmidt has an impressive track record of bringing historical works to bear on their ...

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“Orpheus Descending” is a play filled with desperate characters in desperate situations. In this 1957 Southern Gothic potboiler from Tennessee Williams, a small Mississippi town is strung tight with ...

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Do you know the story of Orpheus, the Greek myth about a guy with a god-like gift for music? He was so talented that his songs tamed wild beasts and made stones weep. And when his wife died from a ...

In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche DuBois leaves her secret past in small town Mississippi and arrives in New Orleans, a place full of temptation. In “Orpheus Descending,” which premiered on ...

“Orpheus Descending,” a rarely revived play about the treatment of outsiders, has only become more meaningful for its star and its director. By Sarah Bahr Sarah Bahr sat in on a rehearsal in Brooklyn ...

John Mellencamp will release his 25th album, Orpheus Descending, on June 2. The singer and songwriter is previewing the 11-song set with album opener "Hey God." The nervy, slide guitar-driven song ...

“Orpheus Descending,” a great big louche mess of a play by Tennessee Williams, from 1957—revived at Theatre for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, directed by Erica Schmidt—kicks into gear ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Erica Schmidt’s revival of this Tennessee Williams play for Theater for a New Audience downplays the melodrama. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Clad in a ...

With a guitar and a smirk, Val Xavier brings a sexy, hip-swaying energy to a rigidly conservative small Southern town. After spending a night in jail, he looks for work at a store run by Lady Torrance ...