FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2026

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | MUW & TWT’s 6th Annual 10:4 TENN National Playwright Competition Reading

Location: Columbus-Lowndes Public Library Meeting Room (Upstairs) | 314 7th Street N.

Details: Join us for a reading of the top three 10-minute plays from this prestigious national competition. A light lunch will be served, and the library will showcase vintage film posters from some of Tennessee Williams’ most famous movie adaptations.

6:00 PM – Late | The Glass Menagerie of Words: Poetry Slam & Live Blues and Jazz

Location: Munson & Brothers Beer Garden | 301 2nd Ave North

Details: Celebrate Tennessee Williams’ literary successes with performances by local poets alongside a live set featuring his favorite musical styles: blues and jazz.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2026

8:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Edwina’s Morning: “Coffee, Pastries, and the Roots of a Playwright”

Location: Tennessee Williams Home Museum & Welcome Center | 300 Main Street

Details: Enjoy light breakfast treats while touring the birthplace and first home of Tennessee Williams. Attendees will also experience an original vignette set in the summer of 1913, featuring local actors portraying Tennessee’s mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, and his grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin.

Performance Times: Three stagings of “A Little Pitcher with Big Ears” will take place at 9:00 AM, 9:45 AM, and 10:30 AM.

5:30 PM – Late | A Night in New Orleans: “Bringing a Little Big Easy Magic to Columbus”

Location: Ridge House | 571 Ridge Road (A historic antebellum home, lovingly restored and thoughtfully updated)

Details: Join us for a fun, relaxed evening featuring New Orleans cuisine, Tennessee Williams porch plays, live jazz music, and an antique auction!

Porch Plays: The Glass Marsupial, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, & Tennessee’s Leading Lady: A Tribute to Brenda Caradine.

Live Auction: Presented by Stevens Auction Company, with a portion of the proceeds directly benefiting the Tennessee Williams Tribute Foundation to preserve the literary legacy of Columbus’s most famous son!

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2026

9:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Grits & Grace: “Tennessee & Theology: Faith and Southern Fiction”

Location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church | 318 College Street

Details: Enjoy a traditional Southern breakfast in the Parish Hall, followed by an extraordinary sermon by The Rev. Andrew McLarty in the sanctuary where Tennessee’s grandfather once preached—and where Tom (Tennessee) and his sister, Rose, were baptized.