John Waters' Film Star Mink Stole Joins Tenn @ Town Hall in Provincetown This Week

Mink Stole, popular actress in John Waters' movies, is also joining Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon and the line-up of stars returning to the Festival to be part of Tenn @ Town Hall.

Stole has a long history with Provincetown. In 2011, she appeared in the raucous NOW THE CATS WITH JEWELLED CLAWS and in 2013 delighted audiences at The Gifford House in THE MUTILATED.

The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival (TW Fest)'s Tenn @ Town Hall is slated for September 24-27, 2015.

In YEAR TENN: A Decade of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown, the TW Fest celebrates its 10th Anniversary in grand style by bringing back popular Festival actors to take part in a special reading of excerpts from the 11 Tennessee Williams' premieres presented over the last decade. "This event brings the power and beauty of Williams' words front and center," says Executive Director Jef Hall-Flavin who has adapted the excerpts to flow in this ensemble presentation. "The words Tennessee Williams wrote have the power to transform. Heard together in one evening, ten years of transformations unfold, resonating from play to play."

Festival Curator David Kaplan added, "We are paying homage not just to the plays that have premiered here, but also to a decade of hard work, belief, passion, and love for this Festival."

Film and stage actors Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon starred as Big Daddy and Big Mama in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at TW Fest 2013.

Joining them from past productions are Festival stars Irene Glezos, Beth Bartley and Brenda Currin (Orpheus Descending 2010-11; In the Summer House, 2013-14), with Lou Liberatore (Something Cloudy, Something Clear 2011), Jeremy Lawrence (The Traveling Companion 2007 & 2011, among many other productions 2006-13), and local Provincetown actors Jody O'Neil, Ben Berry, Adam Berry, Darlene van Alstyne, Ian Leahy, plus a special appearance by Miss Coney Island 2011, Lefty Lucy.

Among the plays at TENN @ Town Hall are this year's curious Aimez-Vous Ionesco, the sultry Green Eyes, the down and dirty Madame LeMonde, the heart-warming Parade, the bawdy Dog Enchanted by the Divine View, the mini-tragedy of The Enemy: Time, the road-tripping Once in a Lifetime, the heroic Sunburst, the revolutionary Pronoun "I", the stylish Curtains for the Gentleman, and the myth-bending American Gothic.

Threaded throughout are plays inspired by Williams' writing that have also been presented at past Festivals. Excerpts include Wendy Kesselman's The Shell Collection, along with Gift of an Orange by Charlene A. Donaghy and Rancho Pancho by Greg Barrios.

The celebration at Town Hall also features live music by George Maurer on piano and Ukumbwa Sauti on percussion. Composer Maurer adapted Williams' poetry into Autumn Song at TW Fest 2011.

The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival was founded in 2006 in the birthplace of American Modern Theater where Williams worked on many of his major plays during the 1940s. The TW Festival is the nation's largest performing arts festival dedicated to celebrating and expanding the understanding of America's great playwright. Theater artists from around the globe perform classic and innovative productions to celebrate Williams' enduring influence in the 21st Century. YEAR TENN, the 10th anniversary Festival will take audiences from the stage to bay to the beach presenting a wide range of the Fest's landmark productions and works inspired by Williams from Thursday, September 24 through Sunday, September 27, 2015. For more visit www.twptown.org and Facebook.

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