Orpheus Descending **1/2
By: Samuel L. Leiter July 18, 2023: Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending has never been a critical favorite, and only the most enraptured Williams fans are likely to admire it much. First seen on Broadway in 1957, 17 years after it premiered in Boston as Battle of Angels (which had its first New York staging Off Broadway in 1974), it underwent numerous revisions before reaching the Great White Way. The Br…