June 18, 2013

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Honored with Actors’ Equity Assoc. Award

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*The Broadway production of “Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire” will receive the Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2011-2012 Season from Actors’ Equity Association. The show, produced by Front Row Productions (Stephen Byrd, Alia Jones-Harvey), will receive the honor at a presentation at Equity headquarters at 12:30 pm on Tuesday. Byrd, [...]




Video: Underwood, Parker Open in Broadway’s ‘Streetcar’

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*Here’s your first look at Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker as Stanley and Blanche in Broadway’s revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” It’s is the first time the 65-year-old Tennessee Williams’ play has been produced on Broadway with an all non-white main cast. Daphne Rubin-Vega plays Blanche’s sister Stella and Wood Harris stars as [...]




Nicole Ari Parker Takes ‘Streetcar’ to Broadway

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*NAACP Image Award winner Nicole Ari Parker is set to star opposite Blair Underwood in the upcoming Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Emily Mann. Parker will play Blanche Du Bois in the production, which is set to open in the spring of 2012. The Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize winning [...]




Report: Blair Underwood Set for Broadway Debut

Blair Underwood attends the Joining Forces with Hollywood Trade Representatives panel at the Writers Guild Theatre on June 13, 2011 in Beverly Hills

  *With an unexpected free schedule following the cancellation of NBC’s “The Event,” Blair Underwood has turned his full attention toward theater. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the actor will make his Broadway debut as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, to be directed by Emily Mann. The play, from Front Row [...]