Blanche DuBois

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Cate Blanchett's Blanche, A Capital Conversation-Starter Fatale attraction: Blanche (Cate Blanchett) takes the measure of her Stanley (Joel Edgerton) in A Streetcar Named Desire. (Lisa Tomasetti/Sydney Theatre Company) By Trey Graham

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...notes impishly that she stole a few things from her director. A few of Blanche's gestures, she says, letting her hands float dreamily before her in DuBois-ian splendor, are Liv's. The actress believes it is the Norwegian director's...

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...full schedule. Through Nov. 28. 240/644-1100. A Streetcar Named Desire - Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater - ★★½ Cate Blanchett's Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' classic play is a fragile remnant of a fanciful plantation-era South...

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...Carre." Tandy Cronyn presented a postcard Tennessee had sent her late mother Jessica Tandy, the original Blanche DuBois, from Italy, reveling in how Blanche would love Rome. Her father Hume Cronyn had been instrumental in keeping the young...

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...Cate Blanchett, who has played Queen Elizabeth I, is performing in Washington, portraying someone less than regal -- flurried Blanche DuBois, in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire." If Obama administration officials involved in...

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...Blanchett achieved here, in every gesture and word, proved stunning. The sight of this Blanche pulling a shawl over her head, as if she hoped it would make her invisible, or being led away not even fully dressed by the stranger on whose...

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...is a fragile remnant of a fanciful plantation-era South that may never had existed in the first place. She doesn't stand a chance of surviving when she enters her sister Stella's (Robin McLeavy) cramped New Orleans apartment and is dropped...

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...Stella is consigned resolutely -- and aptly -- to Blanche's shadow. (Stella's crack about how catering to Blanche makes her feel like she did at home rings particularly true.) Fortunately, Blanche DuBois is meant to exist in an eternal...

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...the play has to say. At some point in her career, Ullmann says, "I would have loved to have played Blanche." Haughty, needy, broken Blanche is one of those potentially breath-stopping career markers for a great actress, a role that...

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