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Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

Story:

The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject—so far as possible—the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely "normal" young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.

: Playwright
Tennessee Williams

Broadway Premiere

Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Opening Night: Dec 3, 1947

Total Performances: 855

Original Cast: Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Vito Christi, Nick Dennis, Ann Dere, Richard Garrick, Peg Hillias, Gee Gee James, Edna Thomas

Director: Elia Kazan

Producer: Irene M. Selznick

Scenic Design: Jo Mielziner

Costume Design: Lucinda Ballard

Lighting Design: Jo Mielziner

1950 Broadway Revival

Theatre: City Center

Opening Night: May 23, 1950

Total Performances: 16

Original Cast: Jorja Curtright, Arny Freeman, Uta Hagen, Harry Kersey, Wright King, George Mathews, Eulabelle Moore, Anthony Quinn, Peggy Rea, Edna Thomas

Director: Elia Kazan

Producer: Irene Mayer Selznick

Scenic Design: Jo Mielziner

Costume Design: Lucinda Ballard

Lighting Design: Jo Mielziner

1956 Broadway Revival

Theatre: City Center

Opening Night: Feb 15, 1956

Total Performances: 15

Original Cast: David Anthony, Tallulah Bankhead, Bert Bertram, Rudy Bond, Sandy Campbell, Vinnette Carroll, Bruno Damon, Jean Ellyn, Lou Gilbert, Frances Heflin, Dorritt Kelton, Gerald S. O'Laughlin, Edna Thomas

Director: Herbert Machiz

Producer: New York City Center Theatre Company

Scenic Design: Watson Barratt

Lighting Design: Watson Barratt

Spring 1973 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Vivian Beaumont Theatre

Opening Night: Apr 26, 1973

Total Performances: 110

Original Cast: Penelope Allen, Philip Bosco, Brian Brownlee, Patricia Conolly, Frank Dwyer, James Farentino, Ray Fry, Donald M. Griffith, Rosemary Harris, Rosetta LeNoire, Everett McGill, Ellen Newman, John Newton, Robert Phalen, Priscilla Pointer, Dan Sullivan, Robert Symonds, Sydney Walker, Alyce E. Webb, James Ray Weeks

Director: Ellis Rabb

Producer: Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center

Scenic Design: Douglas W. Schmidt

Costume Design: Nancy Potts

Lighting Design: John Gleason

Sound Design: Gary Harris

Fall 1973 Broadway Revival

Theatre: St. James Theatre

Opening Night: Oct 1, 1973

Total Performances: 53

Original Cast: Alan Cauldwell, Barbara Eda-Young, Alan Feinstein, Ray Fry, Rosetta LeNoire, Biff McGuire, Santos Morales, Lois Nettleton, Priscilla Pointer, Antonia Rey, Sandra Seacat, Robert Symonds

Director: Jules Irving

Producer: Jules Irving

Scenic Design: Douglas W. Schmidt

Costume Design: Nancy Potts

Lighting Design: John Gleason

Sound Design: Gary Harris

1988 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Circle in the Square Theatre

Opening Night: Mar 10, 1988

Total Performances: 84

Original Cast: Frank Converse, Blythe Danner, Frances McDormand, Aidan Quinn, Gary Cookson, Ken Costigan, Becky Gelke, Mateo Gomez, Kathleen Marsh, Seldon Powell, Linc Richards, Louise Stubbs, Myra Taylor

Director: Nikos Psacharopoulos

Producer: Circle in the Square

Scenic Design: John Conklin

Costume Design: Jess Goldstein

Lighting Design: Curt Ostermann

1992 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Opening Night: Apr 12, 1992

Total Performances: 137

Original Cast: Alec Baldwin, Jessica Lange, Timothy Carhart, Amy Madigan, Susan Aston, William Cain, Sol Echeverria, James Gandolfini, Edwina Lewis, Matt McGrath, Lazaro Perez, Aida Turturro

Director: Gregory Mosher

Producer: Gregory Mosher, James Walsh, Capital Cities/ABC Inc., Suntory International Corporation and The Shubert Organization

Scenic Design: Ben Edwards

Costume Design: Jane Greenwood

Lighting Design: Kevin Rigdon

Sound Design: Scott Lehrer

2005 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Studio 54

Opening Night: Apr 26, 2005

Total Performances: 73

Original Cast: John C. Reilly, Natasha Richardson, Chris Bauer, Amy Ryan, Starla Benford, John Carter, Wanda Houston, Alfredo Narciso, Kristine Nielsen, Frank Pando, Barbara Sims, Scott Sowers, Will Toale, Teresa Yenque

Director: Edward Hall

Producer: The Roundabout Theatre Company

Scenic Design: Robert Brill

Costume Design: William Ivey Long

Lighting Design: Donald Holder

Original Music and Sound Design: John Gromada

2012 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Broadhurst Theatre

Opening Night: Apr 22, 2012

Total Performances: 105

Original Cast: Wood Harris, Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Blair Underwood, Amelia Campbell, Matthew Saldivar, Rosa Evangelina Arredondo, Carmen De Lavallade, Aaron Clifton Moten, Jacinto Taras Riddick, Count Stovall

Director: Emily Mann

Choreographer: Camille A. Brown

Producer: Stephen C. Byrd, Alia M. Jones, Anthony Lacavera, BET Networks, Henry G. Jarecki, Simon Says Entertainment and Dancap Productions, Inc.; Produced in association with Linda Davila, Patricia & Thomas Bransford and Theatre Venture Inc.