Summer and Smoke

…Page with a revival of Summer and Smoke, a Tennessee Williams play that had failed on Broadway. With that work, interest in off-Broadway productions was ignited. In May 1956 Quintero directed his first O’Neill play, a revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards, who would star in a number…

…to critical acclaim Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke, a play that had previously flopped on Broadway. The success of Off-Broadway’s often-experimental productions meant that the work of some writers (such as Edward Albee), and some productions, subsequently moved to Broadway.