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About 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.