Before HBO's harrowing prison drama "Oz" and before "The Shawshank Redemption," there was Tennessee Williams' "Not About Nightingales." Well, sort of. Though written in 1938 for the Group Theater " which rejected it " the play remained mostly unknown until Vanessa Redgrave resurrected it in 1998...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 01:39PM on May 2, 2017