Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams – Henry Schvey & Judy Newmark

The recently published book, Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams, by Henry I. Schvey, Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, grew out of the author’s discovery in a New Orleans bookstore of an unpublished and entirely unknown Tennessee Williams poem by the same name.
 
Tennessee Williams lived longer in St. Louis than anyplace else and yet, despite spending his adolescence and early childhood in St. Louis, this part of his life and the influence and impact of his time in St. Louis on his development as a writer is only now, through this book, finally and sensitively more fully explored.
 
Join Henry Schvey and Judith Newmark, former St. Louis Post-Dispatch theatre critic and author, for a sparkling conversation between these long-time friends as they discuss Schvey’s new book and their passion for theatre and the arts. To view the Zoom recording click here.