Historic. It’s the only way to describe the Evening of Tribute and Celebration to Tennessee Williams which was part of a week long celebration of Tennessee Williams induction into the Poets’ Corner at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.
The event took place on November 5, 2009 at 7pm in New York City. The Evening of Tribute and Celebration was hosted by The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine and was presented in association with the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. Participants included Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and their daughter Katherine Wallach, 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 current Cathedral Poet-in-Residence Charles F. Martin.
Fortunate for me, I was given permission to make a photographic record of the event. The slide show above represents the highlights of the evening. Rolling your mouse over the photographs reveals the name of the participant and the nature of their presentation.
