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Tag Archives: A Streetcar Named Desire
The Key to Streetcar Named Desire is Stella, and Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Different: A Review of Who Am I This Time? (1982)
A re-post, because I’ve got love and theatre on the brain. Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her … Continue reading
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Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, Christopher Walken, comedy, literary adaptation, reviews, Susan Sarandon, Tennessee Williams
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Jennifer McCabe on Acting: “Bring Yourself.”
Jennifer McCabe I met Jennifer McCabe in 1995 when we both were grad students at the Actors’ Studio MFA Program in Manhattan. We became friends, of a sort, during our 9 a.m. dance classes at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio … Continue reading
The Books: Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity, by John Strasberg
Daily Book Excerpt: Theatre Next book on the acting/theatre shelf is the classic Accidentally on Purpose: Reflections on Life, Acting and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity, by John Strasberg I took an intense acting workshop with John Strasberg, son … Continue reading
Today in history: March 26, 1914
Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams) was born in Columbus, Mississippi. Will you do a total stranger the kindness of reading his verse? Thank you! Thomas Lanier Williams — Tennessee Williams, letter to editor Harriet Monroe, March 11, 1933 “You’re always … Continue reading
“a fatally mistaken premise”
Now I like Thornton Wilder a lot (not only because of Our Town and all the others, but because of this anecdote – which should be memorized by every actor/director planning on doing Our Town, because THAT is the key … Continue reading
Today in history: December 3, 1947
A Streetcar Named Desire opened in New York at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Scene 5, Streetcar Named Desire BLANCHE: Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan, John Garfield, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando, Tennessee Williams
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Blanche Dubois and the Code
Wonderful post from Jose about Blanche’s monologue about her husband (“he was a boy”) in Streetcar, and how it had to be made much less explicit (meaning: not explicit at all) in the film version, due to the Production Code. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams, Vivien Leigh
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Happy Birthday, Tennessee Williams
Will you do a total stranger the kindness of reading his verse? Thank you! Thomas Lanier Williams — Tennessee Williams, letter to editor Harriet Monroe, March 11, 1933 “You’re always having to compete with yourself. They always say, ‘It’s not … Continue reading
Specifics About Performances
Alex has up a really nice post right now, praising my observations about Bud White and Russell Crowe in that role. She writes: “I love people that notice the little things about actors.” Speaking of noticing specific little things about … Continue reading