A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is one of the most enduring, explosive works in theater. Blanche DuBois, once a well-heeled Southern belle but now alcoholic and destitute, arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brutish brother-in-law Stanley. And as Stanley terrorizes the fragile Blanche, reality slips slowly away from her.

Recorded at KCRW, Santa Monica in May 1998.

Directed by Martin Jenkins
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:

Amy Brenneman as Stella
Fred Coffin as Steve and The Man
Vincent D'Onofrio as Stanley
Jamie Hanes as the Doctor
Glenne Headly as Blanche
Lyvingston Holmes as the Matron and others
Armando Molina as Pablo and the Sailor
Rondi Reed as Eunice and others
David Selby as Mitch
Danny Strauss as the Young Man

Stage Manager and Live Sound Effects: Tilo Ponder
Recording Engineer: John McCarthy

Music composed by John Robey, and performed by John Robey, Steve McDade and Jack Zaza.

A co-production with the BBC and the CBC.