September 30: Country music singer-songwriter Marty
Stuart was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
January 7: Two plays by Tennessee
Williams,Suddenly Last Summer and Something Unspoken,
open under the collective title Garden District (after their shared New
Orleans locale) Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in New York.
December 29:Period of Adjustment High Point over a Cavern by Tennessee
Williams opens at Coconut Grove Playhouse, Miami.
Premiere of the film The Long Hot Summer, based on the novel The Hamlet
and several short stories by William
Faulkner.
Premiere of the film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, based on the play by Tennessee
Williams.