Celebrities Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo, Eriq La Salle, Sinbad and Boris Kodjoe together with Robert Greenblatt, President of NBC, caught Streetcar Named Desire stars and producer Stephen Byrd backstage last night at the Broadhurst Theater. Read More

Actors' Equity Association (Equity) announced today that the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE has been selected as the recipient of its Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2011-2012 Season.Read More

DCNN's Suzanne Malveaux talks with outspoken AIDS activist and actor Blair Underwood.Read More

Daphne Rubin-Vega made an iconic Broadway debut in Rent. She's back in another famous role in the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire - and there are more classic characters on her wish list.Read More

Melissa Harris-Perry invites actor Blair Underwood and director Emily Mann to her show to talk about their Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and how it reinterprets race and class. Read More

Tony Award winner and Academy Award winner Alan Arkin recently attended the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, at the Broadhurst Theatre, and afterwards visited with his daughter-in-law, Amelia Campbell, who plays Eunice in the show.Read More

The Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, which had recently announced an extension through Aug. 19, will end its run July 22 in anticipation of a fall London engagement. Read More

A Streetcar Named Desire stops at THEATER TALK for Tony Awards weekend, with stars Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker, joined by producer Stephen C. Byrd, discussing the historic Broadway production with series co-hosts Michael Riedel of the New York Post and executive producer Susan Haskins. Read More

Plain and simple, the latest rendition of Streetcar has soul. The first step towards even remotely enjoying this daring revival, means one needs to let go of the poster child version and understand that it will most likely NOT resemble verbatim what we all have deemed impenetrableÑmyself included. Read More

On the heels of the play being extended to August 19-and an offer to run in London-BlackEnterprise.com caught up with Ari Parker to talk inspiration for her role, family life with actor-husband (and hottie) Boris Kodjoe, and the prospect of new opportunities in Hollywood. Read More

Patty talks to Blair Underwood backstage at the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York, NY. Read More

Many women undoubtedly indulge in multiple daydreams that include waking up and falling asleep next to the dreamy Boris Kudjoe, but Nicole Ari Parker is the only woman in the world who has that pleasure.Read More

Music legend Aretha Franklin and stage and screen star Denzel Washington attended recent performances of the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, at the Broadhurst Theatre.Read More

As he prowls and bullies, bursting with machismo and magnetism, Blair Underwood is putting his personal stamp on a landmark role. Read More

Uno de los primeros nombres hispanos que aparecieron en las fulgurantes marquesinas de Broadway fue el del actor puertorriqueno Jose Ferrer, caracterizando al personaje principal de la obra 'Cyrano de Bergerac', en el ano 1947. Read More

The 81-year-old Legend of the Stage dishes on A Streetcar Named Desire, her inspiring career and what keeps her going Read More

On Thursday, May 24 the cast of the current groundbreaking production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" visits the NYSE. Read More

When it comes to Tennessee Willams' classic A Streetcar Names Desire, the city of New Orleans is as much a character as Blanche or Stanley. Read More

Lauren Scala interviews Daphne Rubin-Vega and Nicole Ari Parker, the stars of the latest Broadway revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire". Read More

Actor Blair Underwood is the first African-American man to star in a Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He stopped by live to talk about this Tennessee Williams classic which has has extended its Broadway run to Aug. 19. Read More

With plays like "Streetcar," Stephen C. Byrd aims to bring more black actors, and audiences, to the theater. Read More

From the movie screen, to TV screens and the theaters of Broadway, Underwood has had one of the most versatile careers of any actor of any color. Read More

The new opera Champion, featuring music by five-time Grammy winner Terence Blanchard and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael Cristofer, will receive its world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, June 15-30. James Robinson will direct. Read More

As an undergraduate theatre major in the 1970s with an interest in acting, I did not get to play Stanley Kowalski. It was a personal dream that I never told anyone but the playwright Tennessee Williams. Read More

The multi-ethnic Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker, has extended its Broadway run to Aug. 19. Read More

The famous play "A Streetcar Named Desire" is getting new life with Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker. They join Michael Eric Dyson. Read More

Russell Simmons - I had the pleasure of going to see the latest multi-racial version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway the other night. As the curtain rose, I was transported to a hot and steamy French Quarter in New Orleans. The Terence Blanchard jazz score, a tribute to New Orleans, is a character of its own, capturing the mood of every scene. Read More

Learn the story behind the new multi-racial Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, from the producer who gave us James Earl Jones in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Read More

The celebrated Broadway veteran reveals the attention to detail that went into Tennessee Williams' classic production. Read More

Nicole Ari Parker is having one hell of a homecoming. For the first time since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and heading for Hollywood, she’s back in town headlining the starry Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Read More

Tennessee Williams’ Broadway hit, A Streetcar Named Desire opened at The Broadhurst Theater in New York last weekend, and is retold with a predominantly Black cast led by Nicole Ari Parker and Blair Underwood. Read More

Piers Morgan welcomes television and film actor Blair Underwood for a candid and engaging interview, touching upon such topics as race and politics, patriotism and entertainment. Read More

Word on the street (and all over social media) is that Nicole Ari Parker is giving her all – and then some – as the ever-tortured Southern belle Blanche DuBois in Broadway's revamp of A Streetcar Named Desire. Read More

TELEVISION viewers may know Nicole Ari Parker as the lawyer Teri on the Showtime series "Soul Food," which ran for five seasons in the early 2000s, or perhaps from the short-lived "Deep End," which ABC broadcast briefly in 2010. But on Broadway Ms. Parker is a neophyte. Read More

It was a rainy night in Manhattan on April 22, but the weather inside the Broadhurst Theatre was balmy as the New Orleans-set classic A Streetcar Named Desire opening on Broadway. Read More

Blair Underwood received a Drama League Nomination for Distinguished Performance Award. Read More

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE received 2 Outer Critics Circle Nominations: Nicole Ari Parker for Outstanding Actress in a Play and Daphne Rubin-Vega for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. Read More

Two-time Golden Globe Award nominee Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker have a volatile date with destiny in the multi-ethnic Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which officially opens April 22 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Read More

Two-time Golden Globe Award nominee Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker have a volatile date with destiny in the multi-ethnic Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which officially opens April 22 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Read More

Broadway.com's Jenny Anderson joins the cast of A Streetcar Named Desire in the rehearsal room. Read More

PETERSBURG - Dozens of locals will travel to New York on Saturday to support former Petersburg resident Blair Underwood in his first Broadway play, a modern adaptation of the American classic "A Streetcar named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. Read More

Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois, living on the fumes of the romantic past, is back on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire. Read More

Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe first met on the TV series Soul Food and have been one of Hollywood's most glamorous couples ever since. Read More

In the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire," Marlon Brando played Stanley Kowalski, the role he created on the Broadway stage four years earlier. Now, as Rita Braver tells us, a new "Streetcar" - and a new Stanley - have arrived on Broadway. Read More

The two poles of her sensibility -- the poetic realism side and the social justice side -- are united in a multiracial production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Convert,' set in Africa. Read More

The actors talks about taking on one of theater's iconic roles. Read More

The latest Broadway revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire," Tennessee Williams’s 1947 classic play about sex, booze and betrayal set in an apartment in the French Quarter of New Orleans, is mostly faithful to the original. But there is one very big twist this time around: the cast is multiracial. Read More

Fulfilling the dream of playwright Tennessee Williams himself (and using script revisions made when the author originally conceived of the desegregated version of the show), director Emily Mann's A Streetcar Named Desire takes route through a multi-racial New Orleans. Read More

Blair Underwood is the first African-American man to star in a Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire. But he'd argue that racial diversity is embedded in the Tennessee Williams classic. Read More

An all-new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which stars Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker and Daphne Rubin-Vega and brings a multi-ethnic frame to the New Orleans-set drama, begins Broadway previews April 3 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Read More

This is the first time I’ve ever directed A Streetcar Named Desire, though it’s been one of my favorite plays since I was a girl. Read More

Actor Blair Underwood talks about his portrayal of "Stanley" in the play and the "tremendous pressure," he’s facing in a role once played by Marlon Brando. Producer Alia Jones "A Streetcar Named Desire" also joins the conversation to talk about the multiracial cast featured in the play. Read More

Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" tends to conjure images of Marlon Brando screaming "Stella" into the New Orleans night — or Vivien Leigh, wide-eyed, batting her eyelashes as she depends on the kindness of strangers. Read More

"Funerals are pretty compared to death"...these words struck me as I sat in the darkened theater last night, alongside our godson Ricon Wrenn, at the previews of "A Streetcar Named Desire". Read More

Joan Hamburg talks with actor Blair Underwood and producer Stephen Byrd about Broadway's Street Care Named Desire Read More

L.A. Law actor Blair Underwood is going to be making his Broadway debut in A Streetcar Named Desire! Read More

There’s going to be a whole lotta crazy and a whole lotta steam on Broadway this spring thanks to the upcoming revival of Tennessee Williams’ New Orleans-set A Streetcar Named Desire. Read More

In winning the Broadway role of Tennessee Williams' fragile character Blanche, Nicole Ari Parker got the part of a lifetime - and an opportunity to explore her own feelings about aging and dependence. Read More

Daphne Rubin-Vega & Adam Pascal's 'Rent' Reunion Read More

An all-new production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which stars Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker and Daphne Rubin-Vega and brings a multi-ethnic frame to the New Orleans-set drama, begins Broadway previews April 3 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Read More

He’s been acting for three decades and his performances have earned him two Golden Globe nominations and a Grammy Award, but tonight will be the first time actor Blair Underwood steps onto the Broadway stage. Read More

Blair Underwood's weird ride to becoming Stanley Kowalski onstage in "A Streetcar Named Desire" started four years ago with a dashed hope. The actor had wanted to play Brick in an all-black Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," but had lost the part to Terrence Howard, fresh off his Oscar-nominated turn in "Hustle & Flow." Read More

The company of the forthcoming revival of A Streetcar Named Desire showed up at B. Smith's in midtown last night to eat, drink and discuss their new revival of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece. Read More

The Greene Space presented a conversation on the new take on Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire. Joining us were two-time Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood, in his Broadway debut as Stanley, Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent) as Stella, Nicole Ari Parker ("Soul Food") as Blanche, Wood Harris ("The Wire") as Mitch and Director Emily Mann (Artistic Director of Princeton's esteemed McCarter Theatre). Read More

From his debut film role as Russell Walker in “Krush Groove” (1985) award-winning actor/director/producer/author Blair Underwood is an actor to be reckoned with. Since then he has gone on to star in some of the most memorable roles in film and television today. Read More

The Greene Space presents a conversation on the new take on Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire. Read More

Blair Underwood, who begins rehearsals on Feb. 28 for the exciting new Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Emily Mann, will appear on two nationally televised shows on the same day to talk about Streetcar, and his other current project, the NBC-TV special series "Who Do You Think You Are?" Read More

Blair Underwood plays Stanley, Daphne Rubin-Vega is his Stella, while Nicole Ari Parker plays the febrile Blanche in Emily Mann's new multicultural revival of Tennessee Williams' 1947 classic. Read More