It's 'Streetcar,' but Blanche Has a Sly Side by BEN BRANTLEY
Patricia Clarkson offers a clear-eyed look at one of theater's haziest heroines in a largely spark-free production at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Director Liv Ullmann boldly re-imagines this classic with stunning success, with Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton mesmerizing as Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.
Watching Blanchett's tragic turn from campy theatricality to manic desperation proves to be an intense and unforgettable experience.
The dazzling technique of the lead and solid support from key players around her can't disguise the fact that much of the deeper emotional texture of Tennessee Williams' great tragedy is mut…
Cate Blanchett lays bare the pathos of Blanche DuBois in an erratic revival of the Tennesee Williams classic.
If there is anything missing it is that chemistry between Blanche and Stanley, that powerful sense of inevitability.
As cast and played, this production has less in common with Williams than The Honeymooners, though Reilly, in addition to being no Marlon Brando, is no Jackie Gleason.
Edward Hall's straightforward staging of Tennessee Williams's masterwork suffers from fundamental mismatches of parts and performers.
Hall offers a moment of head-scratching tedium for every moment of shrewd insight, resulting in a serviceable but earthbound production of Williams' 1947 masterpiece.