February 25- March 4

Present day hikers and past hikers meet every year to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The Evergreen at 38th Street has Shanghai influenced dishes that spin around on the gigantic lazy susans. It’s great fun flashing your chopsticks and connecting with people you’ve known for years. The Chinese friend who organizes it has it down to a science. She’s so busy directing traffic, that she herself eats very little.

The Morgan Library and Museum, that gem of books, art and culture has the exhibit, Tennessee Williams: No Refuge But Writing through May 13. It’s a beautiful homage to, in my opinion, our greatest playwright.
Recently, I had the perfect lunch in the Morgan cafe: deviled eggs sitting on tiny cucumber circles and a bowl of black bean soup. Then, I took the glass elevator to the exhibit on the second floor.

Tennessee Williams
1939 Self Portrait

 

The Rose Tattoo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tennessee Williams celebrating The Glass Menagerie’s 10th Anniversary

 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

 

 

 

 

 

Graphic Lessons: Recent thirty-five-year-old widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man in the school kitchen, deals with the only witness to the stabbing – a troubled nine-year-old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies.

Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who’s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie.

Graphic Lessons: Something’s eating at NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek: a failed marriage? surviving a car bomb? his girlfriend marrying his corrupt boss? screwing up an important case? It doesn’t matter because he’s relentless.