Theater Review | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': A Fragile Flower Rooted to the Earth
New York Times (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Cate Blanchett soars spectacularly as Blanche DuBois in Liv Ullmann’s heart-stopping production.
Streetcar Named Desire
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Theater Review | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': A Fragile Flower Rooted to the Cruel Earth
New York Times (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Cate Blanchett soars spectacularly as Blanche DuBois in Liv Ullmann’s heart-stopping production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Streetcar Was...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
An industry friend who also attended yesterday afternoon's A Streetcar Named Desire performance at BAM wrote and asked what I thought. "A pretty good first act but a great second act," I replied. "Cate Blanchett is devastating, brilliant, heartbreaking." "I was very closely attuned to the line readings in the first act. I know Elia Kazan's 1951 film extremely...
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Cate's Streetcar
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
A couple of hours hence I'll be heading over to BAM's Harvey Theatre and a matinee performance of the Sydney Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire, which began yesterday and runs only through 12.20. The lure, of course, is a reputedly devastating Cate Blanchett as Blanche Dubois. The classic Tennessee Williams play was directed by Liv Ullman, and costars Joel Edgerton as Stanley...
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Coming up: A Streetcar Named Desire Dec 2
The Fool and The Opera (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
December 2, 8, 12 7:30pm,and December 5 1pmThe Arts CentrebookingsRunning time (approx): 3 hrs & 20 mins (inc 2 x 20 min interval)Opera Australia presents A Streetcar Named Desire.A Streetcar Named Desire is about the journey of the once beautiful Blanche Dubois who turns up on her sister's New Orleans doorstep looking for refuge from her crumbling life.It...
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'The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond' Trailer Emerges With A Pre-'Eclipse' Bryce Dallas Howard
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ah, Tennessee Williams. It's always encouraging to see your plays adapted for the silver screen. There's "The Glass Menagerie." And "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." And of course "A Streetcar Named Desire," which has been both adapted and spoofed so many times, I've lost count. Now we have "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond," [...]
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Is this a new golden age for British theatre?
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
... the prizes handed out reflected a season of exceptional quality: Rachel Weisz's star turn in A Streetcar Named Desire, Lenny Henry's Othello, young playwright Alia Bano's urgent examination of divisions within British Islam in Shades. Unusually, after a long spell in which the hottest tickets have generally been classic revivals, original scripts were responsible for both the...
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Cate Blanchett: I Love Raising Boys
Celebrity Baby Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... week in honor of welcoming the Sydney Theatre Company to the Big Apple for their production of A Streetcar Named Desire . “It’s a very satisfying noise when you hear all that grit sucked up from the floor and into the machine.” Adds the Oscar winner: “Vacuuming is a big one for me and it’s those simple things that keep my life grounded. It can be quite therapeutic!” As a mother...
- Cate Blanchett: I love raising boys - 365daynews.Com
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Cate Blanchett: I love raising boys
365daynews.Com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... week in honor of welcoming the Sydney Theatre Company to the Big Apple for their production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” “It’s a very satisfying noise when you hear all that grit sucked up from the floor and into the machine.” Added the Oscar winner: “Vacuuming is a big one for me and it’s those simple things that keep my life grounded. It can be quite therapeutic!” As a...
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Blanchett: I love raising boys
CNN (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
"I enjoy vacuuming," Blanchett told PEOPLE at the Giorgio Armani/Ristorante dinner party in New York City this week in honor of welcoming the Sydney Theatre Company to the Big Apple for their production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." "It's a very satisfying noise when you hear all that grit sucked up from the floor and into the machine."
- Cate Blanchett: I Love Raising Boys - People
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The Weekend List: Laytner's Linens, Scenes from a Marriage, Lit by Mary Karr
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
... a Marriage, Ingmar Bergman's television masterpiece at BAM Sun, Nov 29 at 2, 5:30, 9 PM. THEATER: Streetcar Named Desire directed by Liv Ullman with Cate Blanchett. Nov 27—Dec 20 at BAM. BOOKS: Lit by Mary Karr; Mill on the Floss by George Eliiot; Raymond Carver: A Writers Life by Carol Skelnicka all at the Community Bookstore.
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Cate Blanchett: I Love Raising Boys
People (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... week in honor of welcoming the Sydney Theatre Company to the Big Apple for their production of A Streetcar Named Desire. "It's a very satisfying noise when you hear all that grit sucked up from the floor and into the machine." Adds the Oscar winner: "Vacuuming is a big one for me and it's those simple things that keep my life grounded. It can be quite therapeutic!"As a mother...
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First Diamond trailer
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
This is a rather interesting tale of a lost script written by a famed playwright over forty years ago, a project that is just now seeing the light of day. For those of us young enough to think Tennessee Williams is a brand of whiskey, he's actually a hugely famous writer who penned A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and BABY DOLL, both of which landed him Oscar nominations. Both were collaborations...
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond trailer plays like a TV movie
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is a screenplay from Tennessee Williams which was supposed to be the third film for him and director Elia Kazan after A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll, however it was never to be and the screenplay sat unused. Now, over forty years later, the screenplay has been made into a film, with a strong cast too, however the trailer still seems to be...
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Cate Blanchett Welcomes The Sydney Theatre Company
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Cate Blanchett (in Armani Prive) attends a welcome dinner for the Sydney Theatre Company at Armani Ristorante on Monday (November 23) in New York City. The 40-year-old actress stars in the lead role in A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois, with Joel Edgerton in the role of Stanley. It premieres at New York’s BAM Harvey [...]