Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran star in a heavy-handed production of Tennessee Williams’s masterpiece, and a mismatched cast stumbles around Henrik Ibsen’s haunted classic.

For unforgettable proof, witness the transfixing production of Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire,” from the Almeida Theatre in London, now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Beautiful as Tennessee Williams’s dialogue is, it’s often what goes unsaid in A Streetcar Named Desire that most deftly captures the tragic ironies of being human. Whether it’s the way actor ...

The year was 1947; the setting, a rooftop rehearsal space on West 42nd Street; and the play, after some vacillation on what the title should be, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Its author ...

Like Blanche DuBois, many of us want a little magic — especially when it comes to theater. That aging Southern belle and her cohorts will deliver on just that in the new production of "A Streetcar ...

Not bloody likely. Those stage directions from Tennessee Williams’s published script for “A Streetcar Named Desire” may amount to a mission statement and an artist’s credo but, 78 years ...

At BAM, 651 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, through April 6. Audiences are boarding “A Streetcar Named Desire” — or, rather, a train called Q — in droves to experience “Gladiator II” star ...