Podcast Mentions
A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
Tennessee Williams
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller ( It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams...
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Podcast
Fresh Air
The play was mentioned as one of Kazan's notable directing projects and as the stage version that introduced Brando to the role of Stanley Kowalski.
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He directed Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, and directed East of Eden, Splendor in the Grass, Baby Doll, A Face in the Crowd, and The Last Tycoon.
— Episode: Film Icons: Elia Kazan / Eva Marie Saint
Episode: Film Icons: Elia Kazan / Eva Marie Saint
The play was mentioned as one of Kazan's notable directing projects and as the stage version that introduced Brando to the role of Stanley Kowalski.
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He directed Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, and directed East of Eden, Splendor in the Grass, Baby Doll, A Face in the Crowd, and The Last Tycoon.
Now you actually really discovered Marlon Brown for the stage version of that which you directed before directing the film.
Podcast
The Rewatchables
The hosts mentioned it as part of a shortlist of the greatest filmed plays alongside other classic stage works.
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I think that it is very clearly on the shortlist of like 12 Angry Men and A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in terms of the best filmed plays, right?
— Episode: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ With Chris Ryan an...
Episode: ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ With Chris Ryan and Sean Fen...
The hosts mentioned it as part of a shortlist of the greatest filmed plays alongside other classic stage works.
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I think that it is very clearly on the shortlist of like 12 Angry Men and A Streetcar Named Desire and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in terms of the best filmed plays, right?
Bowen Yang shared a story from his AP English class where they were reading "Streetcar Named Desire", and his teacher commented on the cover image featuring Marlon Brando, which caused some discomfort related to his sexuality.
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...we were reading um streetcar named desire yes and on the front of streetcar named desire is like marlin looking all sexy yeah and my ap teacher was like what do you think of this picture and I was...
— Episode: "He Gay" (w/ Michael Urie)
Episode: "He Gay" (w/ Michael Urie)
Bowen Yang shared a story from his AP English class where they were reading "Streetcar Named Desire", and his teacher commented on the cover image featuring Marlon Brando, which caused some discomfort related to his sexuality.
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...we were reading um streetcar named desire yes and on the front of streetcar named desire is like marlin looking all sexy yeah and my ap teacher was like what do you think of this picture and I was like what and she was like what do you think the picture is supposed to make you feel and I was like I didn't know if I was being confronted like about my sexuality and I was like uh uh uh and she was like really just like asking like like something questioned about the male form or like how it was like supposed to be like like aspirational or something but it was so blurred line that now looking back I'm like what the fuck was that wow you know what I mean really...
Episode: "He Gay" (w/ Michael Urie)
It was mentioned that a high school English teacher confronted Bowen Yang about the cover image of the book. It was a moment of confusion about his sexuality, as the teacher connected it to an assumption about his future coming out.
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We were reading...Streetcar Named Desire
what do you think the picture is supposed to make you feel...and I was like I didn't know if I was being confronted like about my sexuality...and I was like uh uh uh...and she was like really just like asking like like something questioned about the male form or like how it was like supposed to be like like aspirational or something
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