Document Type
Book
Publication Date
1983
Abstract
When Preston Jones burst upon the national scene, it was like an unknown store clerk strapping on a .45 to take on the established gunslinger in the middle of the street. Suddenly Jones was famous. His picture appeared on the covers of Smithsonian and Saturday Review. He was the subject of a PBS television special. He was compared with Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill. (Saturday Review’s cover asked: “Has Texas Spawned a New O’Neill?”) His three plays, collectively titled A Texas Trilogy, enjoyed a great deal of success after they opened at the Dallas Theater Center (where Jones had worked as an actor for thirteen years before he gained recognition as a playwright) and traveled north toward New York. The plays were especially well-received in Washington where, playing in repertory, they had an extended run at the Kennedy Center.
Recommended Citation
Busby, Mark. Mark Busby. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1983. Digital. Western Writers Series, 58.