AT THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, NEW YORK
A Streetcar Named Desire: New York
By Tennessee Williams, Directed by Rebecca Frecknall
Tickets booked via Brooklyn Academy of Music
Event details
Fri 28 Feb - Sun 6 Apr 2025
★★★★★
The Times, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The i
How pretty the sky is! I ought to go there on a rocket that never comes down.
On a street in New Orleans, in the blistering summer heat, a sister spirals.
When Blanche unexpectedly visits her estranged sister Stella, she brings with her a past that will threaten their future. As Stella’s husband Stanley stalks closer to the truth, Blanche’s fragile world begins to fracture. Reality and illusion collide and a violent conflict changes their lives forever.
Almeida Associate Director Rebecca Frecknall’s “heartstopping” (The Telegraph) revival of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece transfers to Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, for a five-week run in 2025.
The “astonishingly good” (Time Out) Patsy Ferran, “tremendous” (The Times) Paul Mescal, “oustanding” (The New York Times) Anjana Vasan and “beautifully tender” (Variety) Dwane Walcott reprise their roles in this “mesmerising revival” (The i).
Prior to its run in New York, A Streetcar Named Desire will return to the West End for a limited three-week run.
Tickets are booked and processed by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Please note Almeida credit cannot be used when booking via BAM. You must create a BAM account in order to book tickets for this production. Booking and transaction fees may apply.
On Sale Dates
Wed 20 Nov – BAM Members and Patrons
Thu 5 Dec – Amex Presale
Tue 10 Dec – General On Sale
For more information on booking please visit BAM >
Running Time
Approx. 2 hours & 45 mins, incl. an interval
Evenings 7.30pm
Matinees 1.30pm or 3pm
Production Photos
2022 Almeida Production | Photos by Marc Brenner
Cast & Creatives
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Cast
Eduardo Ackerman
Eduardo Ackerman
Eduardo Ackerman
Theatre includes: Let the Right One In; Cockpit; Europe; La Ronde; The Man of Mode; Women Beware Women; Mosquitoes (LAMDA); Twelfth Night; Tales from Ovid (Fontainebleau School of Acting).
Rob Dempsey
Alexander Eliot
Janet Etuk
Janet Etuk
Janet Etuk
Theatre includes: I, Joan; Henry VIII (Shakespeare’s Globe); An Improbable Musical (Royal & Derngate Northampton); Tao Of Glass (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Satyagraha (ENO); The Language of Kindness (Shoreditch Town Hall/ UK tour); Reasons to Stay Alive (ETT); Dinomania (New Diorama Theatre); LOVE (National Theatre/ UK Tour/ European tour); Gastronomic (Norwich Theatre Royal); The Scar Test (Soho Theatre); A Cracked Plaster Sky (Omnibus Theatre); The Love I Feel Is Red (Tobacco Factory); Doing the Idiots (National Theatre Studio); SEALAND (Arcola); Shemehe (National Theatre of Georgia); The Spanish Tragedy (Old Red Lion Theatre); The Four Minute Mile (Oxford Playhouse); Beyond Caring (The Yard/ National Theatre/ Birmingham Rep).
Films include: LOVE; Cold; The Kids Are Alright; Mute; Turn On; The Souvenir; Expecting.
Patsy Ferran
Patsy Ferran
Patsy Ferran
For the Almeida: Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke (also West End, Olivier Award for Best Actress, Critics’ Circle Award for Best Actress).
Theatre includes: Camp Siegfried (The Old Vic); A Christmas Carol (Bridge Theatre); 15 Heroines: The Labyrinth (Jermyn Street Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway); My Mum’s A Twat (Royal Court); Speech and Debate (Trafalgar Studios); As You Like It; Treasure Island (National Theatre); The Merchant Of Venice (RSC); The Angry Brigade (Paines Plough); Blithe Spirit (also West End).
Film includes: Living; White Bird; Mothering Sunday; Tom and Jerry; How to Build a Girl; Darkest Hour; God’s Own Country; Tulip Fever; The National Phobia Association’s Day Out.
Television includes: Will; Guerrilla; Jamestown; Black Narcissus; Life After Life.
Patsy won the Most Promising Newcomer in 2014 and was nominated for an Emerging Talent Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2015.
Gabriela García
Gabriela García
Gabriela García
Theatre includes: West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Lunatic 19s – A Deportational Road Trip (Finborough Theatre, OFFIE nomination for Best Actress in a Play); Strictly Ballroom (West End); Rent (The Hope Mill); In The Heights (Southwark Playhouse/ King’s Cross Theatre – Broadway World nomination for best Actress in a musical); Guys & Dolls (The Mill at Sonning); Ghost Sweet Charity (English Theatre, Frankfurt); Hot Stuff (Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch); Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (The Space).
Film includes: Snow White.
Television includes: Avenue 5; Call the Midwife.
Concerts includes: Well Behaved Women (Cadogan Hall); Songs by an Immigrant (Joe’s Pub, NYC); Danzas Sinfónicas de West Side Story & Musical Highlights with the Symphonic Orchestra of Guanajuato (Teatro Juárez/ Teatro Bicentenario); Up close and Personal with Gabriela García (Union Theatre).
Francesca Knight
Francesca Knight
Francesca Knight
Theatre includes: Lear’s Daughters (Creation Theatre); Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); Julie (National Theatre); E15 (Edinburgh Fringe); Her Naked Skin; Port; The Merchant of Venice; Antony and Cleopatra; Naked Not Nude; The Bloody Banquet; The Country Wife; Three Sisters; Eigengrau (LAMDA); The Five Stages of Waiting (Vertical Line); Gargantua (National Theatre Studio).
Film includes: Teju’s Tale; The Mechanicals of Hemp; Their Finest.
Television includes: Damage; The Suspect; The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe; The Girl Before; The Outlaws; The League of Gentlemen; Home Alone.
Paul Mescal
Paul Mescal
Paul Mescal
Theatre includes: The Plough and the Stars (Lyric Hammersmith/ Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Gaiety Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kilkenny Arts Festival); A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Dublin Theatre Festival); Asking for It (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Great Gatsby; The Red Shoes (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Children of the Sun; Mojo; Three Winters; The Garden; Portia (The Lir).
Film includes: Strangers; Foe; Aftersun; God’s Creatures; Carmen; The Lost Daughter.
Television includes: Normal People (BAFTA for Best Actor).
Curtis Patrick
Tom Penn
Tom Penn
Tom Penn
Theatre includes: Wolf Witch Giant Fairy (Royal Opera House/ Little Bulb, Olivier Award for Best Family Show); Midnight Movie (Royal Court); Orpheus (Little Bulb Theatre); Snow White & Rose Red; The Ugly Sisters (RashDash); Fairy Portal Camp (Slung Low/ RSC); Undersong (Verity Standen); How To Win Against History (OvalHouse); A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad); Neverland; Songs For The End of The World; The Archivists; Kick (Battersea Arts Centre); Weighting (Extraordinary Bodies); Dolce Napoli (King’s Head Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare’s Globe); Thumbelina; A Merry Little Christmas; Romeo & Juliet; Vertigo; The Lamplighter’s Lament (Cambridge Junction); Some Things Are Lost (Gate Theatre).
Television includes: CBeebies’ The Nutcracker.
Constanza Ruff
Jabez Sykes
Jabez Sykes
Jabez Sykes
Theatre includes: Rock / Paper / Scissors (Sheffield Theatres); The Secret of Christmas Eve (Oldham Theatre Workshop); Birthday (UK tour); The Visitors Book; Spring Awakening; The Snow Queen (Hope Mill Theatre); Kiss Me Quickstep (Oldham Coliseum).
Anjana Vasan
Anjana Vasan
Anjana Vasan
For the Almeida: Summer and Smoke (also West End).
Theatre includes: A Doll’s House (Lyric Hammersmith – Evening Standard Award nominee for Best Actress); Rutherford and Son; Dara; Behind The Beautiful Forevers (National Theatre); An Adventure (Bush Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Life of Galileo (Young Vic); Image of an Unknown Young Woman (Gate Theatre); Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory, New York/ Manchester International Festival); The Taming of the Shrew; Much Ado About Nothing (RSC).
Film includes: Wicked Little Letters; Cyrano; Mogul Mowgli.
Television includes: We Are Lady Parts (BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy); Killing Eve; Sex Education; Fresh Meat.
Dwane Walcott
Dwane Walcott
Dwane Walcott
For the Almeida: Machinal.
Theatre includes: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); ANNA; Damned by Despair (National Theatre); Moonlight/Night School (West End); One Night in Miami; Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Iphigenia Quartet (Gate Theatre); Hamlet (Barbican); The Twits (Royal Court); Venice Preserved (The Spectator’s Guild); Titus Andronicus; A Mad World; My Masters; Candide (RSC); Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Shakespeare Festival); Torque (Bush Theatre); First Kiss (Shorts); The Fiddler; Life on the Stairs (Faith Drama Productions).
Television includes: A Town Called Malice; Enterprice; The Killer Beside Me; Into the Badlands; Our Girl, Doctors; Tut.
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Creatives
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams
Writer
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both he and his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in 1940 for his play Battle of Angels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire and in 1955 for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Tennessee Williams died in 1983.
Theatre includes: Battle of Angels; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat On A Hot Tin Roof; Summer and Smoke; The Rose Tattoo; Camino Real; Baby Doll; The Glass Menagerie; Orpheus Descending; Suddenly Last Summer; The Night of the Iguana; Sweet Bird of Youth; The Two-Character Play.
Rebecca FrecknallRebecca Frecknall
Director
Rebecca Frecknall
Rebecca is Associate Director at the Almeida Theatre and was previously on the Almeida’s Resident Director Scheme supported by the Eranda Rothschild Foundation.
For the Almeida: A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); Nine Lessons and Carols: stories for a long winter; The Duchess of Malfi; Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke (also West End, Olivier Award for Best Revival).
Theatre includes: Cabaret (West End, Olivier Awards for Best Director and Best Musical Revival, Critics’ Circle Award for Best Director); Sanctuary City (New York Theatre Workshop, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play); Steel (Sheffield Theatres).
Madeleine GirlingMadeleine Girling
Set Designer
Madeleine Girling
Theatre includes: Amélie the Musical (West End/ The Other Palace/ Watermill Theatre/ UK tour, Olivier Award nomination for Best New Musical); The Windsors: Endgame; The Importance of Being Earnest (West End); The Winter’s Tale; Always Orange; Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier; Revolt, She SaidThe Ant and the Cicada (RSC); Valued Friends (Rose Theatre Kingston); Embrace (Birmingham Royal Ballet/ Sadler’s Wells); CinderELLA: A New Musical (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); The Taming of the Shrew (Sherman Theatre/ Tron Theatre); Blue Door (Theatre Royal Bath); The Weir (ETT); Steel (Sheffield Theatres); Julie (Northern Stage); The Double Dealer; Little Light (Orange Tree Theatre); Kindertransport; A Skull in Connemara; Time and the Conways (Nottingham Playhouse); The Open House (Theatre Royal Bath/ Print Room); The Shape of the Pain (China Plate Theatre); Go Between (Young Vic); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre); Right Now (Theatre Royal Bath/ Bush Theatre/ Traverse Theatre); The Harvest (Theatre Royal Bath/ Soho Theatre); The Chronicles of Kalki (Gate Theatre).
Awards include Broadway World UK Award for Best Set Design of a New Production of a Play or Musical (Amélie the Musical).
Merle HenselMerle Hensel
Costume Designer
Merle Hensel
Merle works internationally in a wide variety of styles and genres. She is also a lecturer at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, Goldsmiths and Rose Bruford College.
Theatre includes: Cock (West End); The Glow; Ear for Eye; a profoundly affectionate passionate devotion to someone (-noun); X; The Mistress Contract (Royal Court); Under Milk Wood; Top Girls; Protest Song (Nation Theatre); Enemy of the People (Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis); Macbeth; The Shawl; Parallel Elektra (Young Vic); Arden of Faversham (RSC); Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland/ Lincoln Center/ Broadway/ Japan tour); Green Snake (National Theatre of China); Glasgow Girls (National Theatre of Scotland/ National tour); 27; The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland); Shun-Kin (Complicité); Diener Zweier Herren (Schlosstheater, Vienna); Der Verlorene (Sophiensaele, Berlin).
Opera includes: Aida (Royal Danish Opera); Until the Lions (Opéra National du Rhin); Maria Stuarda (Vereinigte Bühnen, Mönchengladbach/ Krefeld); Der Vetter Aus Dingsda (Oper Graz); Lunatics (Kunstfest Weimar).
Dance includes: The Barbarians In Love; Sun; Political Mother (Hofesh Schechter Company); Il Combattimento; Contagion (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance); 8 Minutes (Alexander Whitley Dance Company); Lovesong (Frantic Assembly); James Son Of James; The Bull; The Flowerbed (Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre).
Film includes: Morituri Te Salutant; Baby.
Lee CurranLee Curran
Lighting Designer
Lee Curran
For the Almeida: King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); Summer and Smoke (also West End); Dance Nation.
Theatre includes: Constellations (West End/ Broadway/ Royal Court); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/ US tour/ Barbican); Next to Normal (West End/Donmar Warehouse); Player Kings (West End/ UK tour); Henry V; Berberian Sound Studio (Donmar Warehouse); The House of Bernarda Alba; The Welkin; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear – The Musical; Protest Song (National Theatre); Britannicus (Lyric Hammersmith); The Song Project; Gundog; Road; Nuclear War; a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun); X; Linda (Royal Court); The Glass Menagerie; West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester/ UK tour); Nora: A Doll’s House (Young Vic/ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); The Two Character Play (Hampstead Theatre); Harm (Bush Theatre); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); Julius Caesar; Doctor Faustus (RSC).
Dance includes: Cycles, Blak Whyte Gray (Blue Boy Entertainment); The Limit (Royal Opera House); We Are As Gods (James Cousins Company); Enowate (Dickson Mbi); Clowns; Sun; Political Mother; In Your Rooms; Uprising (Hofesh Shechter Company); Don Quixote (Royal Danish Ballet); Untouchable (Royal Ballet); Grey Matter; Tomorrow; Frames (Rambert).
Opera includes: Orphée et Eurydice (Royal Opera House/Teatro alla Scala); Aida; Fidelio; Nothing (Royal Danish Opera); Tosca (Opera North/Opera Australia); Phaedra (Royal Opera House).
Peter RicePeter Rice
Sound Designer
Peter Rice
Peter is a freelance Sound Designer for Theatre & Short Film. He is Course Leader for Sound Design & Production at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Chair of the Association for Sound Design and Production, Sound Associate for NYX Electronic Drone Choir, and a founder member of Stage Sight. Peter also produces and presents the podcast ‘Conversations with Sound Designers’.
For the Almeida: King Lear; A Streetcar Named Desire (also West End); The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Tragedy of King Richard II; Oil.
Theatre includes: House of Bernarda Alba; Deep Blue Sea; On The Shore Of The Wide World (National Theatre); Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train; Yellowman; It’s All Kicking Off Everywhere; Trade; Barbarians; Fireface (Young Vic); This Is Not Who I Am; Gundog; Nuclear War (Royal Court); A Streetcar Named Desire; Hamlet; Scuttlers; The Last Days of Troy; Blindsided; That Day We Sang; Cannibals; Orpheus Descending; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; Black Roses (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Masque Of Anarchy (Manchester International Festival); Miss Julie; Black Comedy (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Fruit Trilogy (Southbank Centre/ West Yorkshire Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Sheffield Theatres); The Funfair (HOME, Manchester).
Film includes: Fellow Creatures; Snapshots; Drown; Grin; Swansong; G.O.D.; Glue.
Angus MacRaeAngus MacRae
Composer
Angus MacRae
Angus recently composed the prologue for the West End production of Cabaret and has also released several albums including Vivarium, MMXIX and Cry Wolf.
For the Almeida: Three Sisters; Summer and Smoke.
Theatre includes: Cabaret (West End); Swive (Shakespeare’s Globe); 공·空·Zero: Restriction, Body and Time (ARKO Arts Theatre Seoul); Out Late (UK tour); The Mountaintop (New Vic Theatre); Kite (Soho Theatre); The Curing Room (Edinburgh Fringe); The Father (Trafalgar Studios); I am A Camera (Southwark Playhouse); Dream of Perfect Sleep (Finborough Theatre).
Dance includes: exisTence (Hessische Staatsballett); What the Moon Saw; From Above (2Faced Dance Company/ International tour); Vestige (The Place); Traces Imprinted (Ballet Cymru).
Film includes: When I’m Done Dying; Fighting For A City; Little; The Snail Man; Confection; Lost Boy; The Listener; Interlude.
Television includes: Gypsy’s Revenge; The Trials.
Julia Horan CDGJulia Horan CDG
Casting Director
Julia Horan CDG
For the Almeida: A Streetcar Named Desire; Three Sisters; The Wild Duck; Machinal; The Writer; Summer and Smoke; The Twilight Zone; Mary Stuart (also West End); The Clinic; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Duchess of Malfi; The Doctor; The Treatment; Hamlet; Oil; Uncle Vanya; Medea; Oresteia (also West End/Park Ave Armory, New York).
Theatre includes: Tambo & Bones (Theatre Royal Stratford East); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Lyric Hammersmith); A Little Life (West End); Sons of the Prophet (Hampstead Theatre); The Wife of Willesden (Kiln Theatre/ BAM, New York/American Repertory Theatre); Girl on an Altar; Pass Over (Kiln Theatre); The Shark is Broken (West End/Toronto); All About Eve (West End); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End/ Broadway); The Inheritance; A View from the Bridge (Young Vic/ West End/ Broadway); The Jungle (Young Vic/West End/ St Ann’s Warehouse, New York/ San Francisco); Yerma (Young Vic/ Park Avenue Armory, New York); A Doll’s House (Young Vic/West End/ BAM, New York); Life of Galileo; The Government Inspector; The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic);
Film includes: The Exception; Hamlet; Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere.
Television includes: The Read (BBC/Rural Media); Together (BAFTA for Best Single Drama); A Murder in the Family.
