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Set in the 1950s French Quarter of New Orleans, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, is the story of a culture clash between a fading Southern belle and a member of the industrial, urban working class. Blanche Dubois visits pregnant sister Stella and husband Stanley after exile from her hometown. Blanche holds court in the apartment, infuriating Stanley and setting them all on a collision course. When Mitch, a card-playing buddy of Stanley's, is introduced, Blanche sees a way out of her predicament. The sexually charged environment only intensifies when Stella leaves Blanche alone with Stanley in the apartment.

Emily Mann (Director)

Multi-award-winning Director and Playwright. In her 21st season as Artistic Director of Princeton University’s McCarter Theatre. Directing credits: Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with Jimmy Smits; The Cherry Orchard with Jane Alexander and Avery Brooks; Three Sisters with Frances McDormand and Mary Stuart Masterson; A Doll House with Cynthia Nixon; and The Glass Menagerie with Shirley Knight. Ms. Mann wrote and directed Having Our Say (Tony, Drama Desk, & Outer Critics Circle nominations; NAACP Award; Peabody Award). Serves on Dramatists Guild Council.

Terence Blanchard (Composer)

5-time Grammy Award-winning Jazz musician and composer, Blanchard has become a leading straight-ahead jazz artist and bandleader in the hard bop tradition, recording 20 chart-topping albums. However, as a film composer Blanchard has been heard by the widest audience, composing over 40 film scores.

Cast

BLAIR UNDERWOOD as Stanley

2 Golden Globe nominations, 3 NAACP Image Awards, Grammy Award. Off-Broadway: Purlie (2005), Love Letters (2002), The Game of Love and Chance, Measure for Measure (1993), El Negro en Peru. Film: Something New (2006), G (2002), Deep Impact (1998), Gattaca (1997), Set It Off (1996), Just Cause (1995), Krush Groove (1985). TV: NBC The Event (2010-11), Dirty Sexy Money (2007-09) HBO In Treatment (2008), HBO Sex & the City (2003), Carnegie Mellon Graduate.

NICOLE ARI PARKER as Blanche

5 NAACP Image Award nominations. Off-Broadway: Chicago, House of Lear, Romeo and Juliet, The Flatted Fifth (1997), June and Jean (1995). Film: Black Dynamite (2009), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), Remember the Titans (2000), 200 Cigarettes (1999), Boogie Nights (1997, cast SAG nominee). TV: Showtime’s Soul Food, (2000-04). NYU Tisch Graduate.

DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA as Stella

2 Tony nominations. Broadway: Les Misérables (2006-2007), Anna in the Tropics (2003-04, Tony nom.), The Rocky Horror Show (2000-02), Rent (1996-97, Tony nom.). Film: Jack Goes Boating (2010), Rachel Getting Married (2008), Sex in the City (2008), Wild Things (1998).

WOOD HARRIS as Mitch

Off-Broadway: Waiting for Lefty (2007), A Soldier’s Play (1996-97), Troilus and Cressida (1995). Film: Next Day Air (2009), Not Easily Broken (2009), Paid in Full (2002), Remember the Titans (2000), As Good as It Gets (1997), Above the Rim (1994).TV: The Wire (2002–08), Hendrix (2000).

Crew

Casting Director: Telsey + Company

Producers: Stephen C. Byrd, Alia M. Jones
Front Row Productions, Producers of the biggest grossing play of the season and first African American Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), and the successful transfer of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to London’s West End (2009-2010) starring James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad with Terrence Howard & Anika Noni Rose on Broadway/ Adrian Lester & Sanaa Lathan on the West End. The West End Revival garnered the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Play.

General Manager: Roy Gabay

Counsel: Donald C. Farber

Press Agent: Springer & Assoc.

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Partnerships: Jacquie Lee

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