Tennessee Williams Museum

12/09/2024

Man with cat. Actually, it’s Tennessee Williams with his cat in Key West. I took this picture in 1981 in his studio behind his house in Key West. Mr. Williams worked several hours each morning at a manual typewriter without distraction before eating a meal and going for a swim. A parrot and bulldog kept company with the cat. Sadly, the greatest playwright of the 20th Century died just a couple years later and this is one of the last pictures in his lifetime.—Nathan Benn

11/29/2024

Right in our backyard 🏊‍♂️

This sign can be found on the Southernmost beach in Key West, Florida.

08/08/2024

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”
― Blanche DuBois from "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams

07/02/2024

The script that became A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

Typist: Change “Ralph” to “Stanley.”

06/26/2024

This is exciting footage of Anna Magnani and Tennessee Williams in Key West

04/17/2024

"Finishing a play, you know, is like completing a marriage or a love affair. You're totally absorbed in the play or the novel or the piece of writing, and when you can't do any more with it, it ceases to be the center of your life. You feel very forsaken by that, that's why I love revising and revising, because it delays the moment when there is this separation between you and the work."--Tennessee Williams/Interview with Joanne Stang/New York Times/March, 1965/

04/14/2024

The Rose Tattoo - Filmed here in Key West

THE ROSE TATTOO, Burt Lancaster, having titular tattoo applied, 1955.

03/18/2024

“I write every day and I revise so often because I want to get it right. To be a writer is to consistently write, revise, question. Writing—like living—is trying every day to get it right, make it clear, figure it out.”—Tennessee Williams in an interview with James Grissom. (Alfred Eisenstaedt)

02/23/2024

We are kicking off our annual Tennessee Williams Key West Festival next week! Join us for the month-long celebration

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For more than 30 years, internationally renowned playwright Tennessee Williams lived and wrote theatrical masterpieces in Key West. Fans can celebrate his extraordinary talent and life with a series of

02/05/2024

Thanks, Bill G., for visiting our awarding-winning Tennessee Williams Museum.

We are open every day from 10:00am until our last admission at 4:30pm. Stop by and learn about one of America's greatest playwrights who called Key West 'home' for over 30 years.

01/19/2024

As the Tennessee Williams Key West Festival approaches, the Key West Art & Historical Society is extending an invitation to poets and writers to partake in the 2024 Poetry and Short Story writing contests. These contests are integral components of the annual celebration held each March in honor of t...

01/13/2024

"I think my writing is prayer. I feel more comfortable putting my words, my desires, my fears, my questions into the mouths of others, then on paper, and I feel that it rises directly to whatever God of the moment is present, is real, is accessible."--Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom

Photo: Tennessee Williams on the set of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 1947. By Eliot Elisofon.