Five by Tenn

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A reviewer's impulse is to say that no one's doing anyone a favor by presenting Five by Tenn, the first New York look at four Tennessee Williams one-acts plus a reprise of the gloomy I Can't Imagine Tomorrow, but the wind that blew the production this way may not be entirely ill. Two groups will benefit from the ordeal: Williams scholars who can see the author working out his themes on the way to or from their best realizations, and fledgling dramatists who realize that even great playwrights sometimes stumble while attempting to find and keep their footing. All others need not apply unless they'd like to examine the myriad ways in which this superb playwright could be feeble. And if they fe[...]