A Streetcar Named Desire

Lindenwood University’s Theatre Department will present Tennessee Williams’ edgy classic, A Streetcar Named Desire, at 7:30 p.m. on April 10-14 in the university’s Emerson Black Box Theater.

General admission tickets are available for $10 at the Lindenwood University Box Office. To reserve tickets or for more information, call 636-949-4433. The box office and the Emerson Black Box Theater are located in the university’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, at 2300 West Clay St., one block west of First Capitol Drive in St. Charles.

A Streetcar Named Desire is one of Williams’ most enduring, sultry, and compelling works as it follows the trio of Stella and Stanley, husband and wife, and Stella’s older sister Blanche, who has come for an impromptu visit to their small two-bedroom French Quarter apartment. As layers of Blanche’s complicated past are peeled away, a simmering conflict slowly escalates between Blanche and Stanley, born of suspicion, disdain and underlying attraction, culminating in their final volatile confrontation.

The cast includes Andrea Grey as Blanch, Joe Bayne as Stanley, and Jamie Chandler as Stella, as well as Steven Finkle, Laura Gibbons, Adam Martinez, Alonso Yaber, Don Krull, Katie Ritter, Katelyn Bowman, Cole Figus, and Juliana Marins de Oliveira. The play is directed by Larry Quiggins with assistant director Alex Stone, Stage Manager Kaitlyn Driesen, and Assistant Stage Manager Brian Paladin. Technical Director is Tim Poertner with set design by Donnell Walsh, assisted by Don Krull. Light design is by Kylor Greene and Courtney McDaniel with sound design by Daniel Sukup, assisted by Jaiymz Hawkins. Costumes were designed by Craig Jones.

For more information about the production, the Lindenwood University Theatre Department or the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, visit www.lindenwood.edu/center or call 636-949-4433.

Lindenwood University, founded in 1827, is an independent liberal arts university offering 84 undergraduate degree programs and 37 graduate programs in diverse areas of study­ in traditional and accelerated formats. Lindenwood operates a residential campus in historic St. Charles, as well as extension sites throughout the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.