
Vieux Carre
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Tennessee Williams’s deeply autobiographical drama 'Vieux Carré' completed a celebrated original Broadway premiere at the St. James Theatre in 1977, remaining an essential, textually rich treasure for theater historians. Set inside a dilapidated, bohemian rooming house in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the Great Depression of the late 1930s, the lyrical narrative follows a young, struggling writer who acts as a narrative lens to observe a desperate, eccentric circle of marginalized tenants fighting for emotional and economic survival. Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, the historic original staging starred Sylvia Sidney.

