A One-Act Play, ‘Kowalski’ Re-Envisions an Encounter Between Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando

If you’re looking for searing psychological insights into either Williams or Brando, you won’t find them here. Still, for fans of these theater and film giants, ‘Kowalski’ offers a canny and absorbing study.

Russ Rowland
Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando and Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams in 'Kowalski.' Russ Rowland

In Gregg Ostrin’s one-act play “Kowalski,” a playwright and an actor meet cute. It’s a summer night in 1947, and Tennessee Williams is at his Provincetown beach house discussing his upcoming project, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” with a friend and colleague, the director Margo Jones. During their chat, he mentions a young, relatively unknown performer who’s set to audition for the male lead, though he has more established names in mind.   

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