A Streetcar Named Desire extends West End run by one week
The West End transfer of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Phoenix Theatre has announced an extra week of performances by popular demand.
Anjana Vasan
Almeida Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire transfers to Phoenix Theatre
Paul Mescal, Patsy Ferran, Anjana Vasan and Dwane Walcott reprise their roles in the West End transfer of A Streetcar Named Desire
REVIEW: Summer and Smoke, Duke Of York’s Theatre ✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews the West End transfer of Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams at the Duke Of York’s Theatre London.
REVIEW: Summer and Smoke, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Summer and Smoke Almeida Theatre Four stars Book Now Despite the poetic beauty of Tennessee Williams’s writing, at the height of his success, his dramas were rooted in reality, whether a St Louis apartment or a plantation home in the Deep South. His rarely produced 1948 play Summer and Smoke is set in the small, gossip-ridden Mississippi town of Glorious Hill which, according to the writer’s detailed notes, was to be clearly represented on stage, from American Gothic architecture to a public park presided over by the statue of an angel. But modern directors have been inspired by the fluid, dream-like qualities of Williams’s plays, especially his later work, to take a more abstract approach, which reaches sublime heights under director Rebecca Frecknall and designer Tom Scutt in a stunning new production at the Almeida. Nine upright pianos, each topped by a metronome, line the back of the otherwise stripped-back … Read more
