`The Eccentricities of a Nightingale'

`The Eccentricities of a Nightingale' Through Sept. 5 ChopinTheatre Studio, 1543 W. Division Tickets: $12; (773) 862-7415.Recommended

Those uncertain about whether Tennessee Williams was the greatestpoet of the 20th century American theater might want to hurry out tosee the Eclipse Theatre Company production of "The Eccentricities ofa Nightingale," now at the Chopin Theatre. All lingering doubts willvanish.

Only Williams could have a character talk about a winter in thedeep South when "the whole town was sheathed in ice." And only hecould have this same character - endlessly thwarted in her romanticyearnings - remind a listener that "before you love you must learn …