I caught a great performance of St. Louis legend Tennessee William’s play, Night of the Iguana at the Clayton Community Theater last Friday. They will be performing it again October 24-27, 2024, Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 2:00 PM. The theater is on the South Campus of Washington University, which is the old CBC campus at 6501 Clayton Road. From the Theater website:

Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is a minister recently fallen from grace and expelled from his congregation for a “nervous breakdown,” who travels to 1940s Mexico to work as a travel guide. Among his group of tourists, however, is a 16-year-old girl, Charlotte Goodall, with whom Shannon has recently been accused of an inappropriate relationship. Meanwhile, his friend and motel owner Maxine Faulk sees in Shannon an escape for her loneliness following the death of her husband, Fred. The situation is only complicated further by the arrival of Hannah Jelks, a spinster from Nantucket, and her father, Nonno, a renowned poet in failing health who is attempting to compose what will be his final work. As Shannon and Jelks develop a deep bond, Maxine’s jealousies get the best of her.

Tennessee Williams, one of the foremost playwrights of the Twentieth Century, grew up in the Central West End, and I photographed his apartment building back in February of 2021 (tenth and eleventh photos). His grave is in Calvary Cemetery, which I looked at back in October of 2013 (third photo).