Theatre Register

A Streetcar Named Desire, 1950

Shows · City Center, 1950

Revival BroadwayCity Center24 performances

The run closed June 11, 1950

Opened
May 23, 1950
Closed
June 11, 1950
Performances
24
Previews
Theatre
City Center

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 429th 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

1947 Ethel Barrymore Theatre Original · Elia Kazan 855 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 it11 named

Jorja Curtright
Arny Freeman
Uta Hagen
Angela Jacobs
Harry Kersey
Eulabelle Moore
Peggy Rea
Arthur Row
Edna Thomas

2 of these 11 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 9 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 Mayer 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.

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