[1] But Williams's playwriting teachers had a negative response to Spring Storm, and it did not receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley, California.

In 2001, the play was produced at Willoughby Fine Arts Association in northeast Ohio, directed by Lenny Pinna.

The European premiere took place at the Royal & Derngate Northampton on 15 October 2009, running alongside Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill.

Written and rewritten between 1937 and 1938, this full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression.

[2] The Performing Arts Association of Notre Dame Australia (PAANDA) presented Spring Storm in 2018.

[3] The play's original title was "April is the Cruelest Month," which was also the opening line from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land."