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Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson, Vanessa Redgrave, Marian Seldes, John Guare, Olympia Dukakis, John Patrick Shanley, Gregory Mosher, Sylvia Miles, William Jay Smith, Lenya Rideout, Jeremy Lawrence, Wyatt Prunty, David Kaplan, Thomas Keith, Mitch Douglas, and Charles F. Martin will participate in an evening of poetry, theater, and reminiscences in honor of the induction of Tennessee Williams into The Cathedral of St. John the Divine Poets’ Corner on Thursday, November 5 at 7pm.
The event is being presented in association with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. The Poets’ Corner was created in 1984 to memorialize American writers and is modeled after a similar alcove at Westminster Abbey in London. Previous honorees have included Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Phyliss Wheatley, e. e. cummings, Emma Lazarus and William Carlos Williams.
There will be a special Evensong Service on Sunday, November 8 at 4pm to complete the tribute and unveil the stone inscribed with Mr. Williams’ line, “For time is the longest distance between two places,” from The Glass Menagerie.
Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.stjohndivine.org or www.twptown.org.
