Kennedy Center to fete Williams

Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, having celebrated the work of composer Stephen Sondheim, will hold a 10-week festival honoring the work of playwright Tennessee Williams between April and July of next year.

The Eisenhower Theater will mount “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “The Glass Menagerie” and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”; Richard Thomas will give a solo performance based on Williams’ correspondence; and the Washington Opera will present the East Coast premiere of Philip Littell’s operatic reconception of “Streetcar,” with Andre Previn conducting.