The bar for a Streetcar Named Desire revival is high: The play feels like settled law, and unless you're a brilliant Bdsm revisionist like Ivo van Hove, the iconography feels constraining, the possibilities for reinvention limited. Mark Rucker's hurtling yet slightly staid production at Yale Rep isn't a new vision of Streetcar at all, but an attempt to re-create, blockily and boxily, a bygone vision. Teeming urban chaos erupts in the form of shapeless, earsplitting jazz. When Stella (Detroit's Sarah Sokolovic) and Stanley (True Blood beefcake Joe Manganiello) make the earth move, Elysian Fields actually moves. And Rene Augesen's meticulously wrought Blanche — fine as old lace and just as prone to disintegration — is as canonical a version as you're likely to find.Canonical, but not typical: The garden-variety, community-theater Blanche whom too many of us grew up with is a toppling fruit-trifle of bad drawling and drag-show camp.
- 10/2/2013
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
Yale Repertory Theatre has announced that Rene Augesen will play Blanche DuBois and Joe Manganiello will play Stanley Kowalski in its first-ever production of A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Mark Rucker, the production, which will open Yale Rep's 2013-14 season, will play tonight, September 20-October 12, at the University Theatre 222 York Street.
- 9/20/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yale Repertory Theatre James Bundy, Artistic Director Victoria Nolan, Managing Director has announced that Rene Augesen will play Blanche DuBois and Joe Manganiello will play Stanley Kowalski in its first-ever production of A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Mark Rucker, the production, which will open Yale Rep's 2013-14 season, will play September 20-October 12, at the University Theatre 222 York Street.
- 6/14/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York -- Stellaaagggrrrrr!!! Joe Manganiello, the actor best known as hunky werewolf Alcide Herveaux on HBO's True Blood, will tackle the plum role of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' 1947 drama about shattered illusions, A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Mark Rucker, the production will open the 2013-14 season at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Conn., running Sept. 20 through Oct. 12. Playing Blanche DuBois, the faded Southern belle whose facade of delicate refinement doesn't wash with her brutish brother-in-law Stanley, is Rene Augesen. The actress previously appeared at Yale Rep in The Beaux' Stratagem and A
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- 6/14/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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