When it comes to Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire, the city of New Orleans is as much a character as Blanche or Stanley. So it fell to set designer Eugene Lee and lighting designer Edward Pierce to bring the energy of the city into Stanley and Stella’s cramped apartment, where the play takes place. “Emily Mann, the ...

The current Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire will extend its run at the Broadhurst Theater by three weeks. The show, which stars Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wood Harris, opened April 22 and was originally scheduled to end on July 22. The Emily Mann-directed revival will now run through August 19. 

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Tennessee Williams’ classic drama A Streetcar Named Desire is getting a riveting Broadway revival starring Blair Underwood as Stanley, Nicole Ari Parker as Blanche, Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and Wood Harris as Mitch. Broadway.com resident artist Justin ‘Squigs’ Robertson headed to Elysian Fields to take in Emily Mann’s production and pen a portrait of the four headliners in ...

Daphne Rubin-Vega is keeping things classy backstage while she stars in a classic on stage. The popular actress and Rent icon is currently playing Stella in an A-list revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker and Wood Harris. In her dressing room at the Broadhurst Theatre, Rubin-Vega let us in on the five ...

Blair Underwood is currently taking audiences on a ride in the New Orleans-set production A Streetcar Named Desire. On a recent trip to The Wendy Williams Show, the actor opened up about the added pressure of recreating a classic for his Broadway debut. “Yeah, you know it’s Marlon Brando. He’s one of the greatest actors of all time ...

Nicole Ari Parker is having one hell of a homecoming. For the first time since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and heading for Hollywood, she’s back in town headlining the starry Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Parker made her name with roles in films like 200 Cigarettes, Boogie Nights ...

It was a rainy night in Manhattan on April 22, but the weather inside the Broadhurst Theatre was balmy as the New Orleans-set classic A Streetcar Named Desire opening on Broadway. The starry Tennessee Williams revival boasted an audience filled with theater titans like Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee, TV stars like Russell Hornsby, current Broadway stars like Norm Lewis ...

Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire was revived and reinvented on April 22, when the show’s first ever Broadway production starring a cast color opened at the Broadhurst Theatre. Broadway newcomers Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker made powerful Broadway debuts as the famously brutish Stanley and the genteel Blanche, respectively, joined by Tony nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella ...

Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wood Harris are headlining Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway, giving this American classic an A-list revival. Emily Mann directs this watershed piece, which stars Underwood as Stanley, a blue-collar brute who comes to blows with his fading southern belle sister-in-law, Blanche DuBois (Parker). Broadway.com Word of Mouth panelists ...

Tennessee Williams' landmark play A Streetcar Named Desire celebrates a starry revival on April 22, when Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Wood Harris and Daphne Rubin-Vega take their opening night bows. Emily Mann directs the classic play, which began previews on April 3.

Streetcar tells the tragic story of fragile former schoolteacher Blanche (Parker), who leaves the family plantation house ...