Recent Reviews of Streetcar

I am also very much interested in looking at some reviews of recent productions of Streetcar Named Desire.  Let's start with the 2005 Broadway production starring Natasha Richardson and John C. Reilly.

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Streetcar2005.html

http://theater.nytimes.com/2005/04/27/theater/reviews/27desi.html

Perhaps we should move on to a British production starring Rachel Weisz:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/charlesspencer/5930319/A-Streetcar-Named-Desire-with-Rachel-Weisz-at-the-Donmar-Warehouse-review.html

Or to John Lahr's review of the 2009 production starring Cate Blanchett:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2009/12/14/091214crth_theatre_lahr

Charles McNulty's review is below:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/12/theater-review-a-streetcar-named-desire-at-the-brooklyn-academy-of-music.html


Chris Jones reviews a 2010 production at Chicago's Writer's Theater:

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2010/05/streetcar-named-desire-cromer-review-writers-theatre-glencoe.html

Ah ha!  Memphis' Hattiloo Theatre has staged a cross-cast Streetcar:

http://www.gomemphis.com/news/2009/sep/28/stage-review-hattiloos-streetcar-named-desire-eye-/

I didn't want another link to a review of a NYC production, but I could not resist this link to one of a version starring Alec Baldwin as Stanley and Jessica Lange as Blanche.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/13/theater/review-theater-a-streetcar-named-desire-alec-baldwin-does-battle-with-the-ghosts.html

Jay Gabler was admittedly unfamiliar with Streetcar when he reviewed the Guthrie's production:

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/07/10/theater-streetcar-named-desire-guthrie-tennessee-lite

Here is a review of a version from Portland:

http://www.oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2008/04/theater_review_a_violent_inven.html

I want to finish with some local reviews:

http://citypaper.com/arts/stage/em-a-streetcar-named-desire-em-1.1128241

http://dctheatrescene.com/2009/11/02/a-streetcar-named-desire-2/
For the various video clips, see the link below:

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Links for 4/14 -- Streetcar

These are a few scenes from the 1951 movie version with Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_lToyPAUyE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1A0p0F_iH8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVxmk9pq2Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxGN29njs3Q&feature=related

Let's look at a more recent version.  In 1995, Alec Baldwin and Jessica Lange played Stanley and Blanche for a TV movie of Streetcar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyxPgXyat1Y

Last summer the Guthrie Theater staged Streetcar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljehZJhvbc

In 2005, Natasha Richardson played Blanche:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cLKFynWwg

Cate Blanchett has also played Blanche, but this clip is of her interview with Charlie Rose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gztnc_60h4k

Her picture is below.  Her production was a traveling one, and this was taken at the Kennedy Center production.