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  Streetcar Named Desire, A

  noun

  a play (1947) by Tennessee Williams.
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  A Streetcar Named Desire

  (1947) A Pulitzer Prize –winning play by Tennessee Williams about the decline and tragic end of Blanche DuBois, a southern belle who, as she puts it, has “always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

Streetcar Named Desire, A

American  

noun

1. a play (1947) by Tennessee Williams.

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A Streetcar Named Desire Cultural  

1. (1947) A Pulitzer Prize –winning play by Tennessee Williams about the decline and tragic end of Blanche DuBois, a southern belle who, as she puts it, has “always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

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Streetcar Named Desire, A A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire A reimagining of Tennessee Williams' classic drama places the action in a contemporary, multicultural urban setting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2018

On stage, she made her Broadway debut in 1992 as Stella in "A Streetcar Named Desire" opposite Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

The Irish actor had been outside London's Almeida Theatre, where he was starring in A Streetcar Named Desire.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023

Most of Kotsur's credits come from the theater, with roles in "Of Mice and Men," "A Streetcar Named Desire" and a Broadway production of "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2022

Those were hosted by actor Karl Malden, who won an Academy Award for his role in 1951's "A Streetcar Named Desire" opposite Marlon Brando.

From Salon ● May 8, 2021

I had read A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie and, like everyone, I thought Williams was a genius.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos