John C. Reilly Tapped for Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire

John C. Reilly has been offered the role of Stanley Kowalski in the upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, according to a representative for the actor. He would join previously announced star Natasha Richardson in the mounting.

Reilly is no stranger to A Streetcar Named Desire; he played Mitch in Steppenwolf Theatre's 1997 production of the classic play. Reilly made his Broadway debut in 1990 in the transfer of Steppenwolf's production of The Grapes of Wrath. He has since appeared on the Great White Way in True West, for which he earned a Tony nomination. In recent years, he has been attached to the Broadway-bound musical version of Marty and starred in the tuner at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston in 2002. A Gotham mounting of the show has not yet materialized.

Reilly was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Chicago. His other film credits include Criminal, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Good Girl, The Anniversary Party, The Perfect Storm, Magnolia, Never Been Kissed, The Thin Red Line, Boogie Nights, Boys, Georgia, The River Wild, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Days of Thunder and We're No Angels. He will soon be seen on the big screen in The Aviator.

Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of the mental and emotional demise of the determined, yet fragile, Blanche DuBois Richardson in the squalid French Quarter apartment of her married sister and animalistic brother-in-law.

A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Edward Hall, is scheduled to officially open on April 24 at Studio 54.