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A Streetcar Named Desire

  • Theater

    April 25, 2012

    A Desegregated 'Streetcar'

    The Tennessee Williams classic gets a multiethnic Broadway staging

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    This Week in the Voice: Bail is Busted

    This week in the Voice, out today: Nick Pinto busts bail and explains how jail really works, writing about OWS and incarceration: "As the Occupy Wall Street movement has introduced a new young generation of mostly white, mostly middle-class activists to civil disobedience, arrest, jail, and the inne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    Streetcar Of Color Opens: My Review

    The fact that the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' culture-clash classic A Streetcar Named Desire has a multicultural cast turns out to be a non issue. As long as the poetry is served, it doesn't matter what color the actors are, especially if they're game for the challenge. And in this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Movie Stars Who Turned Down Legendary Roles

    We all know about classic stuff like Cary Grant making sure they cast Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady instead of him, and Doris Day not tarnishing her image by doing The Graduate--a part that would have resulted in her still working today. But here are some other weird cinematic decisions, courtesy of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Rebecca The Musical Is Coming After All

    Earlier this year, the musical version of Rebecca put up its Broadway marquee but had to take it down when the full money didn't surface. Well, one of the stars is telling people it's on again! Mrs. Danvers can sing to paying customers!

  • Voice Choices

    October 19, 2011

    BLEAK HOUSE

    Ivo van Hove reimagines Cries and Whispers

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    'Last Tango in Paris' and 'Deep Throat' Signal End of the World

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 22, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 8 Cock-tale parties on the East Side by Andrew Sarris Scorpio would never have made the connection if he had not been partying all week up and down the East Side Gold Coast where, as it so happens, "T ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 9, 2011

    Beautiful Burnout and The Method Gun: Haymakers + Playmakers

    Productions from Scotland and Austin punch in to St. Ann's Warehouse and Dance Theater Workshop

  • Theater

    September 22, 2010

    Ivo van Hove Renovates The Little Foxes, Lucy Thurber's Bottom of the World Drifts Downward

    New York Theatre Workshop and the Atlantic Theater open their seasons

  • Film

    September 22, 2010

    Martin Scorsese Finally Tells His Hero How He Feels

    New York Theatre Workshop and the Atlantic Theater open their seasons

  • Columns

    August 25, 2010

    Will Anyone Buy "Woody Hoodie" Condoms?

    Swing-dancing, Fringe-watching, Montauk-visiting—almost relaxing

  • Columns

    July 27, 2010

    Mexican Graffiti

    It's still Ike's era for immigrants

  • Theater

    June 29, 2010

    In The Grand Manner, A.R. Gurney Looks Back at Broadway's Past, and His Own

    Lincoln Center mounts a story of stagestruck youth

  • Film

    April 6, 2010

    Edgerton Brothers' The Square Confuses Body-Pileups with Plot Twists

    Lincoln Center mounts a story of stagestruck youth

  • Columns

    March 16, 2010

    What's Up With Jeremy Renner's Sexuality?

    You'll never guess who I saw on my latest outing.

  • Voice Choices

    November 24, 2009

    HEY, STELLA!

    Cate Blanchett tries to stay alive

  • Voice Choices

    April 15, 2008

    Jazz Score

    Cate Blanchett tries to stay alive

  • Theater

    September 11, 2007

    The Dark Secrets of the Belgian Avant-Garde

    Or, How Director Ivo van Hove Rehearses Molière's The Misanthrope

  • Theater

    January 16, 2007

    Life in Hellman

    This revival of Toys in the Attic stirs up New Orleans' inner hurricane

  • Film

    December 19, 2006

    Method to Her Madness

    Carroll Baker breaks down in this early '60s melodrama

  • Theater

    October 31, 2006

    Jumping the 'Streetcar'

    What would happen if Kowalski met Katrina?

  • Screens

    May 16, 2006

    Rack Focus

    What would happen if Kowalski met Katrina?

  • NYC Life

    August 16, 2005

    Tee Season

    You cool kids are all wearing those zany slogan T-shirts? How quaint.

  • Columns

    May 10, 2005

    NY Mirror

    You cool kids are all wearing those zany slogan T-shirts? How quaint.

  • Theater

    May 10, 2005

    Remembrance of Obies Past

    Judges from the last five decades pay homage to the productions and artists they'll never forget

  • Theater

    April 26, 2005

    Unexciting Ride

    What is Streetcar's dull competence good for? Showing what's not dull about Streetcar.

  • People

    April 19, 2005

    The Big Easy Does It

    Temptation awaits in New Orleans

  • Columns

    April 19, 2005

    NY Mirror

    Temptation awaits in New Orleans

  • Film

    June 29, 2004

    Marlon Brando 1924–2004

    How the original Method man changed the nature of screen acting and shaped the national self-image

  • People

    June 29, 2004

    We Love the '80s!

    How the original Method man changed the nature of screen acting and shaped the national self-image

  • Theater

    February 3, 2004

    Brecht's Mother haggles and battles her way into the future

    How the original Method man changed the nature of screen acting and shaped the national self-image

  • Columns

    November 11, 2003

    NY Mirror

    How the original Method man changed the nature of screen acting and shaped the national self-image

  • News

    October 14, 2003

    The Politics of Groping

    A Cure for Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Grab Men Back

  • Film

    February 13, 2001

    Action Figures

    A Cure for Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Grab Men Back

  • News

    October 31, 2000

    Sontag in Wonderland

    Auteur Director Ivo van Hove Brings Some Radical Will to ‘Alice in Bed’

  • Theater

    May 16, 2000

    Waves of Faves

    Thirty-Three New York Theater Types Offer Up Their Favorite Productions From the 1999–2000 Season

  • Music

    March 28, 2000

    Opera by the Book

    Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

  • Long Island Voice

    November 23, 1999

    The parent trap

    Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

  • Film

    November 16, 1999

    The Parent Trap

    Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

  • Theater

    September 14, 1999

    A Formalist Affair

    Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films

  • Theater

    August 31, 1999

    Will audiences blanche?

    Director Ivo Van Hove drives a peculiar 'Streetcar'

  • Music

    March 30, 1999

    The Great American Opera

    The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question

  • News

    March 16, 1999

    A Snitch in Time

    The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question

  • Theater

    March 2, 1999

    Private Prisons

    The vast increase in operatic venues reopens an old unsettled question

  • Columns

    February 2, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Why the resistance to Cher's single? One insider told me, 'American radio doesn't go for older artists.' Perhaps they'd like some of her boyfriends.

  • Theater

    January 5, 1999

    Stell-a-a-a!

    Why the resistance to Cher's single? One insider told me, 'American radio doesn't go for older artists.' Perhaps they'd like some of her boyfriends.

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