This Month in Theatre History
1945 (80 years ago) Tennessee Williams returned to New York after spending the summer at a resort in Mexico writing poetry and a play he would later name A Streetcar Named Desire. His return in September coincided with the opening of his play You Touched Me!, his much-anticipated follow-up to the hugely successful The Glass Menagerie, which ran for 561 performances on Broadway. Expectations were high for his new work…