She's one of theater's Everest roles, exhausting, perilous — and irresistible to any actress with a sense of adventure. Even Marge Simpson... Blanche DuBois: Chasing Magic, Fleeing the Dark Blanche ...

Who’d want to be in the position of Blanche DuBois, the delicate creature first played on stage by Jessica Tandy, and then on screen by Vivien Leigh, both actresses starring opposite Marlon Brando as ...

Thaïs, the sexiest woman in Alexandria during the Byzantine era, and Blanche DuBois, the steamy Southern belle slipping past her prime in Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire,” may seem women ...

The soulful strains of a loping Sidney Bechet soprano sax set the mood for dusk in the French Quarter, and once again Blanche DuBois arrives upon "A Streetcar Named Desire." Monte, who worked with ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Basic storyline of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE has ...

The Coven & Precariat Productions, in association with Wolfpack Theatrics, present a history-making new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, featuring a genderqueer/trans actor ...

After all, a woman’s charm is 50 percent illusion. A new production of the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” opening in Crown Heights on May 7, puts a spotlight on the play’s gender ...

From the moment Blanche DuBois walked on the Broadway stage in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” on Dec. 3, 1947, and admitted, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” her ...

Playing Blanche DuBois is shattering, say the actresses featured in Nancy Schoenberger’s “Blanche.” But Tennessee Williams’s most indelible character is now a figure of sympathy. By Alexandra Jacobs ...

In rehearsals of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1974, Claire Bloom asked Tennessee Williams what happened to Blanche duBois after she left the sanatorium where Stanley Kowalski sent her at play's end.

‘She’s not a great actress,” Liv Ullmann says, explaining why the Blanche DuBois in her production of A Streetcar Named Desire seems so shaky from the moment she arrives at her sister’s French Quarter ...

For her American fans, Gillian Anderson is most closely associated with her role as Agent Dana Scully from the Fox science fiction series “The X-Files,” but in England, where the actress has lived for ...