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Tennessee Williams Ventures South of Market

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Macbeth, Peter Matthews, Boxcar Theatre, Big Daddy, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois, Amanda Wingfield, Nick A. Olivero, Arts News
George Heymont

This past season, as most nonprofits were trimming their sails due to the sagging economy, Boxcar Theatre fearlessly staged a whopping 15 productions!

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Haskell Captures the Dynamics Underlying an American Icon in Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Kay Brown, Irene Mayer Selznick, Academy Awards, Films, Nebiy Mekonnen, Books, Victor Fleming, Hattie McDaniel, Molly Haskell, Thomas Mitchell, Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind, Olivia De Havilland, Ethiopia, Margaret Mitchell, Alexis De Tocqueville, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited, A Streetcar Named Desire, George Cukor, William Cameron Menzies, Blanche DuBois, Sidney Howard, David O. Selznick, Vivien Leigh, Richmond, Clark Gable, Frankly, Books News
Penelope Andrew

Film scholar Molly Haskell couldn't have been a more perfect choice for Yale University Press to tap for an Icons of America volume that explicates the phenomenon of Gone with the Wind.

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Influences: Angelic and Demonic

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Jean Malaquais, Jane Austen, Michael Lennon, Zola, Mary Mccarthy, Picasso, Helen Mirren, J.D. Salinger, Aleksandar Hemon, Blanche DuBois, Jill Scott, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Philip Roth, Humphrey Bogart, Mma Ramotswe, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Otto Abetz, Saul Bellow, The Beat Generation, Emma Bovary, Sense and Sensibility, Norman Mailer, Dreyfus Affair, Henri Matisse, Marcel Proust, Tolstoy, William Faulkner, Celine, Cathleen Schine, Baudelaire, Petain, Malraux, Huysmans, Stendahl, Simenon, Gides, Dannecker, Flaubert, Laval, Books News
Barbara Probst Solomon

Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.

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Culture Zohn: Streetcars Named Desire Still Pass This Way

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois, Tennessee Williams, Cate Blanchett, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2009-12-10-zohnpull.jpg We're all looking for our share of elusive lady and gentleman love, just like the desperate characters in Streetcar: some grab for it, some wait for it, some cry for it, some fight for it.

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Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Tim Richards, Sydney Theatre Company, Joel Edgerton, Stanley Kowalski, Tess Schofield, Tennessee Williams, Liv Ullmann, Ralph Myers, Cate Blanchett, Nick Schlieper, Scenes From a Marriage, A Streetcar Named Desire, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Edward Hopper, Blanche DuBois, Marlon Brando, American Dramatic Literature, Robin McLeavy, Stella Kowalski, New York News
David Finkle

Cate Blanchett pulls out all stops throughout Tennessee Wiliams's supernal tragedy, A Streetcar Named Desire, now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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