CLOSING FOR 'A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE'
Daphne Rubin-Vega
The Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, produced by Front Row Productions (Stephen C. Byrd and Alia M. Jones-Harvey), closed the other day. The cast had a celebration to mark the final performance.
The show closed to a very strong box office, $616,897 for the week, per Variety.
Directed by Emily Mann, Streetcar is set against the sexy backdrop of New Orleans' gritty French Quarter. The play tells the tale of former school teacher and socialite Blanche DuBois (Nicole Ari Parker), as she's forced to move in with her sister Stella (Daphne Rubin-Vega) and her animalistic husband Stanley (Blair Underwood). But the fragile, Blanche quickly gets a gritty life lesson in the seamy, steamy underbelly of 1950s New Orleans. The show also stars Wood Harris as Mitch.
Plans are underway to bring the show to London’s West End.
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