The run closed December 17, 1949
- Opened
- December 3, 1947
- Closed
- December 17, 1949
- Performances
- 855
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 18th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of A Streetcar Named Desire 7 more that season
| 1950 | City Center Revival · Elia Kazan | 24 perf. |
| 1956 | City Center Revival · Herbert Machiz | 15 perf. |
| 1973 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Ellis Rabb | 110 perf. |
| 1988 | Circle In The Square Theatre Revival · Nikos Psacharopoulos | 84 perf. |
| 1992 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival | 137 perf. |
| 2005 | Studio 54 Revival · Edward Hall | 73 perf. |
| 2012 | Broadhurst Theatre Revival · Emily Mann | 105 perf. |
Who was in it18 named
Marlon Brando
Jessica Tandy
Kim Hunter
Karl Malden
Rudy Bond
Vito Christi
Nick Dennis
Ann Dere
Richard Garrick
Gee Gee James
Edna Thomas
Henry Barnard
Sandy Campbell
Hilda Haynes
Ralph Meeker
James O Neill
Carmelita Pope
1 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Elia Kazan
- Producer
- Irene M. Selznick
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for A Streetcar Named Desire at all.
- No show page for A Streetcar Named Desire. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.