London Production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Starring Gillian Anderson, Eyeing New York Run

Gillian Anderson, who headlined Tennessee Williams’A Streetcar Named Desire at London’s Young Vic this summer, has revealed that the show is aiming to play in New York in 2016. “We’re looking for a theater that can take our revolving set,” the stage and screen star told the Daily Mail. Joshua Andrews, who co-produced the mounting with the Young Vic, confirmed to Broadway.com that "discussions are ongoing and it is very much the intention to give this acclaimed production of an American classic a life in the US."

Directed by Benedict Andrews, Anderson played Blanche DuBois, with Broadway alum Ben Foster (Orphans) as Stanley Kowalski. No word yet on whether Foster would cross the Pond with the production, which was filmed by National Theater Live and broadcast worldwide in the fall.

Best known for her work on her hit sci-fi series The X-Files, Anderson’s stage credits include Absent Friends at MTC, The Philanthropist at Long Wharf Theatre, What The Night Is For (West End debut), The Vagina Monologues, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, A Doll’s House and the Mark Rylance-created fundraiser We Are One—a celebration of tribal peoples.

Streetcar tells the tragic story of fragile former teacher Blanche, who leaves her family plantation house and moves to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella and Stella’s animalistic husband, Stanley. She quickly learns tough lessons in the seamy underbelly of the 1940s French Quarter. The classic play was last revived on Broadway in 2012 starring Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Blair Underwood as Stanley.