UT at Austin's A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Opens Tonight

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance presents A Streetcar Named Desire, today, October 10-19 at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre.

In the sultry streets of New Orleans, passions flair and cultures collide in Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Blanche DuBois, a fading relic of the Old South, searches for refuge at her sister's home, only to collide with reality in the form of Stanley Kowalski, her brutish brother-in-law. Provocative and lyrical, A Streetcar Named Desire is a commanding landmark drama by one of the great voices of the American Theatre.

The show runs October 10 - 19, 2014. Performance times are October 10-11, 14-17 at 7:30 p.m., October 11-12, 19 at 2:00 p.m., and October 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the Oscar G. Brockett Theatre (300 E. 23rd St.), located in the F. Loren Winship Drama Building. A map of the campus: utexas.edu/finearts/tad/season-tickets/map-directions-parking.

Tickets ($25 adults, $20 UT faculty & staff, $15 student) are now on sale at authorized ticket outlets, which include the Bass Concert Hall Box Office, most H-E-B stores and all Texas Box Office outlets, online at JoinTheDrama.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060 or (800) 982-BEVO.

For more information on A Streetcar Named Desire, visit:
http://texasperformingarts.org/season/a-streetcar-named-desire-ut-austin-theatre-dance.

Pictured: Keith Machekanyanga as "Stanley Kowalsky," Juliet Robb as "Blanche DuBois," and Alyse Ullery as "Stella Kowalsky". Photo by Lawrence Peart, Courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance.

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