Article: Not About Nightingales. (Alley Theater, Houston, Texas)

The Alley Theater in Houston has scored the theater coup of the year by coproducing with England's Royal National Theatre the world premiere of a Tennessee Williams play that has languished unproduced for 50 years. A brutal and upsetting prison drama, Not About Nightingales packs a three-part punch: It's a 1930s-style "living newspaper" expose of inhumane prison conditions; it's an early study of themes that would emerge full-blown in The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire; and it's a powerhouse dramatic spectacle staged by Trevor Nunn, world famous for directing Cats and Sunset Boulevard. Following its London debut, the production opened last month in Houston ...

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