In The News:

CAPE COD TIMES:   "The premiere to be directed by [Marsha] Mason ("The Goodbye Girl," "Cinderella Liberty") is Williams' "Talisman Roses." The play will be produced by the Collective NY along with several other world-premiere short plays on the theme of waiting by Charlene A. Donaghy and festival newcomer Joseph Paprzycki."  Click Here to Read

BROADWAY WORLD:   The Tennessee Williams Institute "...was initially developed by Thomas Keith, a Williams' editor and scholar who is the Creative Consultant to the Festival and Charlene Donaghy, TW Festival Producing Director, playwright, and teacher, in collaboration withMark Charney, Chair of Texas Tech University's Department of Theatre and Dance."  Click Here to Read

BROOME COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL Review by George Basler of Sword Play, inspired by Charles Hartley’s oil painting Nurnberg Cathedral, produced at Know Theatre's 10th Annual Playwrights and Artists Festival:  "Donaghy’s play was a social drama, set in New Orleans in 1962, focusing on the conflict between a young nun and parish priest about the future of an African-American boy whom the nun has taken under her wing."  Click Here to Read

PROVINCETOWN MAGAZINE:  "Bringing the Bayou to a Provincetown Garden" by Rebecca M. Alvin.  Donaghy "...is happy to embrace the "magical beauty" of the Wa Garden.  "It's very much like the courtyard I do all my writing in, so it's really come full circle," she says, "And it really adds to that intimacy with the audience."  Click Here to Read

EDGE BOSTON:  "Apples to Oranges:  Williams Short Story Inspires Play and Heads to Big Easy" by Kaye Bourne.  "Says director Jackie Davis about the appeal of the story, in which an older woman lures a young man into a romance using voodoo: 'Even though it’s a spell, there’s true passion by two people for each other.'" Click Here to Read

MEMPHIS - THE DAILY HELMSMAN:  "Love:  New Orleans Style" by Melissa Wray.  The Quadroon and the Dove give audiences not only "...a close-up look at not only the lengths people will go to attain their heart’s desire, but the obsessions that drive them there..."  Click Here to Read

STAGEBUZZ Review by Byrne Harrison of Gift of an Orange produced by New Urban Theatre Laboratory of Boston, MA at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.  "It's amusing to me that my favorite play in the Tennessee Williams Festival wasn't written by Tennessee Williams.  'Gift of an Orange,' Charlene A. Donaghy's play inspired by William' short story 'Gift of an Apple,' both captures the spirit of Williams' work and brings something new and wonderful to life.".  Click Here to Read

WICKED LOCAL:  "Williams Festival in Provincetown ends with a sizzle like a hot kiss" by Sue Harrison. 
On Gift of an Orange "In a good play nothing goes the way you think it will, and all you can hope for is to be spellbound for however long the action continues and to walk out unsure of what you are feeling but knowing you are feeling something.  This play delivers on all counts."  Click Here to Read

EDGE BOSTON:  "7th annual Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival" by Bob Israel.  "'Gift of an Orange," written by Charlene A. Donaghy, pays homage to Williams in the setting and tone"  Click Here to Read

BOSTON THEATRE CONFERENCE Interview:  Q:  If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be? A:  More female playwrights seeing their works produced.  Click Here to Read

LITCHFIELD COUNTY TIMES - Force of Nature at the Warner by Jack Coraggio - Click Here to Read 

THE REGISTER CITIZEN - Playwright beats the odds, in so many ways by Jean Sands - Click Here to Read