Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Producing Director Richard M. Parison, Jr., will present Tennessee Williams' masterwork, A Streetcar Named Desire, as part of the theater's 15th Anniversary Season. Directed by Julianne Boyd, Streetcar stars three-time Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie as Blanche DuBois and Christopher Innvar as Stanley Kowalski, and will play on the Mainstage from August 6 - 29, 2009, with a Press Opening Sunday, August 9 at 5pm.
There may be no other play with quite the same punch as Tennessee Williams' American classic, A Streetcar Named Desire. It is so powerful an exploration of fractured domesticity, sexual love and frustration that its two central characters, Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois, are nothing less than American icons. A Streetcar Named Desire premiered in New York in 1947, thus cementing William's reputation as one of the greatest American Playwrights, winning him a New York 's Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. With its raw sexuality, A Streetcar Named Desire broke taboos on stage and screen.Set against the steamy backdrop of New Orleans ' gritty French Quarter, Williams' drama tells the story Blanche DuBois, a faded Southern belle, driven to madness by her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.Marin Mazzie (Tony Award nominee for Best Actress in a Musical for performances in Kiss Me, Kate, Ragtime and Passion) stars as Blanche DuBois opposite Christopher Innvar (BSC's Private Lives and Cyrano, B'way's 110 in the Shade, Threepenny Opera) as Stanley, with Kim Stauffer (DC's Shakespeare Theatre Company member) as Stella, and Kevin Carolan as Mitch (The Ritz and Dirty Blonde). Also in the cast are Emily Taplin Boyd (Nurse), Miles Hutton Jacoby (YoungCollector), John Juback (Steve), Jeffrey Kent (Doctor), Chavez Ravine (Mexican Woman/Blues Singer), Jennifer Regan (Eunice), and Thom Rivera (Pablo). The production is designed by Brian Prather (Sets), Scott Pinkney (Lights), Elizabeth Flauto (Costumes), and Brad Berridge (Sound). Renee Lutz is production stage manager.Videos