Dance Legend Carmen De Lavallade & More Join A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway

Casting is complete for the upcoming Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Wood Harris and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Previews of the Tennessee Williams classic begin on April 3 at the Broadhurst Theatre, with opening night set for April 22. Emily Mann directs.

Joining the previously announced stars are legendary dancer Carmen De Lavallade (House of Flowers, Josephine Baker, the film Carmen Jones), Amelia Campbell (Waiting in the Wings, Our Country’s Good), Aaron Clifton Moten, Jacino Taras Riddick, Matthew Saldivar (The Wedding Singer, Grease) and Count Stovall (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Inacent Black, A Philadelphia Story).

Streetcar tells the tragic story of fragile former schoolteacher Blanche (Parker), who leaves the family plantation house and moves to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella (Rubin-Vega), and Stella’s animalistic husband, Stanley (Underwood). She quickly gets a gritty life lesson in the seamy, steamy underbelly of 1940s life in the French Quarter.

A Streetcar Named Desire will feature original music by Terence Blanchard, as well as set design by Eugene Lee, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Edward Pierce, sound design by Mark Bennett and choreography by Camille Brown.