By TIM CORNWELL THERE WAS ONE PLAY BY TENnessee Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of such American classics as A Streetcar Named Desire, which he never wanted performed in his lifetime.

U.S. filmmaker Taylor Hackford has signed on to direct "Tenn," a movie about late playwright Tennessee Williams. Williams was the author of such American stage classics "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,""The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." He choked to death in 1983 at the age of 71.

U.S. filmmaker Taylor Hackford has signed on to direct "Tenn," a film about late playwright Tennessee Williams. Williams was the author of such American stage classics "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,""The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." He choked to death in 1983 at the age of 71.

By Lisa Millegan, The Modesto Bee, Calif. May 13--TURLOCK -- Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" is a tragedy about a family that can't bear to face reality. But director Drew Sutherland's staging at California State University, Stanislaus, isn't all depression and tears.

By Linda Winer, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Mar. 7--THEATERGOERS CAN -- and surely will -- argue about the historical logic of the all-black "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" that opened last night at the Broadhurst Theatre.