Paramount Summer Classics Are Back!

Celebration of classic cinema with Brando, Hitchcock, and 1971

"...special tribute to Marlon Brando (Guys and Dolls, A Streetcar Named Desire, and On The Waterfront). Plus, as promised,..."

May 19, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...American Elizabeth Jennings was ejected from a designated white streetcar in NYC. Her civil lawsuit, decided by an all-white..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Will the Third Time Be a Charm for an Austin Rail System?

Project Connect looks to help make connections

"...It hasn't always been this way. Austin had a streetcar system that served much of today's central city (Hyde..."

Sept. 25, 2020 News Feature by Jack Craver

Day Trips: Interurban Railway Museum, Plano

Remembering the interurban rails

"...the cutting edge of transportation. Waco had an electric streetcar system as early as 1891. Rail companies operating between..."

Jan. 24, 2020 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...mount Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree, André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, Kevin Puts'..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Public Notice: Transit, Then and Now

A lingering desire for streetcars

"...hundred souls. Within barely 35 years, it had a streetcar system, which ran with varying degrees of success and..."

Dec. 7, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin Shakespeare’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

This production is everything but sultry, which is the very thing the Tennessee Williams drama needs most

"...In the Forties, The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire offered conflicted family members baring their broken..."

Nov. 23, 2018 Arts Review by Bob Abelman

In Memoriam: Ken Johnson

Remembering the versatile theatre artist, who died March 2

"...dramas (A Man for All Seasons, Billy Budd, A Streetcar Named Desire), and were routinely praised – most often..."

March 8, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...to see original material from Taxi Driver and A Streetcar Named Desire at the center's upcoming Stories to Tell..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One Ounce Opera’s Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera II

Austin’s One Ounce Opera juices the night away

"...by Vynnie Meli, was a comic deconstruction of A Streetcar Named Desire), and Peter Michael von der Nahmer and..."

April 14, 2017 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Pleasure of the Paynes 2016

Annual theatre awards think Terminus is the living end

"...Featured Actress Amber Quick, A Streetcar Named Desire..."

Oct. 27, 2016 Arts Post

First Look: General Tso'Boy

Rock Rose newcomer breaks fast-casual rules

"...As legend has it, during New Orleans’ 1929 streetcar conductor strike, brothers Bennie and Clovis Martin developed the..."

June 24, 2016 Food Post by Molly Burke

2016 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Supporting Role winners, accepts for her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire at the 2016 Austin Critics Table Awards..."

May 26, 2016 Photo Gallery

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Amber Quick, A Streetcar Named Desire..."

May 27, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Year of the Booster

The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...collect her award for performance as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, she got a laugh by saying, "I..."

May 25, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...The Hidden Room Theatre Skylight, Street Corner Arts A Streetcar Named Desire, Austin Shakespeare Terminus, Vortex Repertory Company..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Public Notice: Bridges From the Past to the Future

Take a walk along the historic bridges of Shoal Creek

"...structure hand-built in 1887, opening up West Austin to streetcar transit and development, and the Third Street Union Pacific..."

March 11, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Spectrum Theatre's Tribute to Boyd

African-American company's gala salutes the great Boyd Vance

"...with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and its first A Streetcar Named Desire with African-American actors in the lead roles...."

Jan. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Shakespeare's A Streetcar Named Desire

This thoughtful take on Tennessee Williams' classic subtly pits the Old South against the New North

"...and now comes Austin Shakespeare with Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire ('48). Unlike the well-executed museum production just..."

Nov. 27, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Happy Hundredth Birthday, Paramount Theatre!

Austin's original vaudeville stage announces Lyle Lovett and more

"...the entire city. That said, it did have a streetcar. "Yes, we had mass transit in Austin. Vote Prop..."

Jan. 28, 2015 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Creative Things I Lucked Into in 2014

In 2014, reality and fantasy battled it out in theatre and art that was equally exquisite and unnerving

"...their brilliant, hilarious, vigorous deconstruction of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire...."

Jan. 2, 2015 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Method Gun

The Rude Mechs' play both affirms and dismantles everything your own guru taught you

"...with rehearsals for their production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire minus all the major characters, which may..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Randall Stephens: 'I Can Handle the Job'

"...heard that the tire companies bought up all the streetcar lines – I don't know how accurate that is...."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

A Tall Drink of Water

Stars we love at the Paramount Summer Classic Film series

"...Those two early Fifties films, A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, ushered in Brando's..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago

On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup

"...sound, a horse steady at slow trot. And a streetcar's clang...."

Feb. 7, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Top 10 Dramatic Turns of 2013

A look back at some of the year's most gripping performances

"...4/5) RACHEL MCGINNIS MEISSNER AND LAURA ARTESI IN 'A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE' (City Theatre Company) Meissner's striking turn as..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Adam Roberts

The Boxing Lesson

Box sets grow up and out

"...unsung heroes including Suzi Jane Hokom, Honey Ltd., Hamilton Streetcar, the Kitchen Cinq, and Sanford Clark, the rockabilly star..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Scott Schinder

How Do You Get From Here ... to Here?

The Austin transit system plan has vision but little consensus

"...will decide on the mode of transportation (light rail? streetcar? Bus Rapid Transit?) and the specific alignment of the..."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

A Streetcar Named Desire

Blanche may want magic and not realism, but in City Theatre's revival, it's realism that makes the magic

"...A Streetcar Named DesireCity Theatre, 3823-D Airport, 512/524-2870 www.citytheatreaustin.org Through Aug...."

Aug. 9, 2013 Arts Review by Adam Roberts

Blue Jasmine

Class difference and life's shambles are on Woody Allen's mind as he leads Cate Blanchett through a perfectly calibrated performance as a Park Avenue matron brought low by modern finance.

"...recent financial crisis. Drawing in equal measures from A Streetcar Named Desire and the real-life Ruth Madoff story, Blanchett..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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