A  Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
A  Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
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A Streetcar Named Desire

Author: Tennessee Williams

Narrator: Amy Brenneman, Fred Coffin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jamie Hanes, Glenne Headly, Lyvingston Holmes, Armando Molina, Rondi Reed, David Selby, Danny Strauss

Unabridged: 1 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/11/2025


Synopsis

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.

Author Bio

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) is the acclaimed author of many books of letters, short stories, poems, essays, and a large collection of plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino Real, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, and The Rose Tattoo.

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