The Big Easy Meets Broadway as A Streetcar Named Desire Opens

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 and moves to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella (Rubin-Vega), and Stella’s animalistic husband, Stanley (Underwood). She quickly learns tough lessons in the seamy underbelly of the 1940s French Quarter.

The production also features Carmen De Lavallade, Amelia Campbell, Aaron Clifton Moten, Jacino Taras Riddick, Matthew Saldivar and Count Stovall.