The run closed February 26, 1956
- Opened
- February 15, 1956
- Closed
- February 26, 1956
- Performances
- 15
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- City Center
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 508th 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. |
| 1950 | City Center Revival · Elia Kazan | 24 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 it13 named
David Anthony
Tallulah Bankhead
Bert Bertram
Rudy Bond
Sandy Campbell
Bruno Damon
Jean Ellyn
Lou Gilbert
Frances Heflin
Dorritt Kelton
Gerald S O Laughlin
Edna Thomas
1 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 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
- Herbert Machiz
- Producer
- New York City Center Theatre Company (Jean Dalrymple: Director)
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.