What was the role of Cate Blanchett in a production of the Tennessee Williams play that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948?
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Cate Blanchett on screen and stage Cate Blanchett is an Australian actress who has extensively appeared in film and stage. She made her stage debut in 1992 by playing Electra in the National Institute of Dramatic Art production of the same name. She followed it with performances in Timothy Daly's "Kafka Dances" (1993) and the Sydney Theatre Company stage production of "Oleanna" (1993) opposite Geoffrey Rush. Blanchett won the Sydney Theatre Critics Award for Best Newcomer for the former and Best Actress for the latter, making her the first person to win both awards at once. She went on to perform several roles on stage, notably Susan Traherne in "Plenty" (1999), Hedda Gabler in "Hedda Gabler" (2004), Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" (2009), Yelena in "Uncle Vanya" (2011) and Claire in "The Maids" (2013).
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A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams that received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter. The London production opened in 1949 with Bonar Colleano, Vivien Leigh, and Renee Asherson and was directed by Laurence Olivier. The drama "A Streetcar Named Desire" is often regarded as among the finest plays of the 20th century, and is considered by many to be Williams' greatest.
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Television Playhouse Television Playhouse is a half-hour American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC. The series aired from December 4, 1947 to April 11, 1948, generally appearing every third Sunday during its run. The program was in cooperation with the National Theater and Academy, a federally sponsored theater group, and featured live performances of plays, some of which were by well-known authors.
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Out Cry Out Cry is a play by Tennessee Williams which was one version of "The Two-Character Play" by Williams. "Out Cry" premiered at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicago on July 8, 1971. It debuted on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre with a preview on February 28, 1973 and then ran from March 1-10. The New York production was directed by Peter Glenville and starred Cara Duff-MacCormick as Clare and Michael York as Felice.
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Paula Vogel Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "How I Learned to Drive". Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.
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The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a five-character memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister Rose. In writing the play, Williams drew on an earlier short story, as well as a screenplay he had written under the title of "The Gentleman Caller".
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Seven Guitars Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by American playwright August Wilson. It focuses on seven African-American characters in the year 1948. The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events leading to the funeral in flashbacks. "Seven Guitars" represents the 1940s entry in Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle", a decade-by-decade anthology of African-American life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the twentieth century; Wilson would revisit the stories of some of these characters in "King Hedley II", set in the 1980s.
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Cato Street Cato Street is a play by the British actor and writer Robert Shaw. The play's subject matter is the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820. The play was first produced in London in November 1971, at the Young Vic, and the cast included Vanessa Redgrave, James Hazeldine, Bob Hoskins, George Innes and Malcolm Tierney.
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Donald L. Coburn Donald L. Coburn (born August 4, 1938) is an American dramatist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1978 for his play "The Gin Game".
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The Rats (play) The Rats is a stage drama in five acts by Gerhart Hauptmann, which premiered in 1911, one year before the author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Unlike other Hauptmann plays, such as "The Weavers" (1892) and "The Assumption of Hannele" (1893), this one does not seem ever to have been performed on Broadway.
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The Old Maid (play) The Old Maid is a 1935 play adapted by American playwright Zoë Akins from Edith Wharton's 1924 novella of the same name, included in the collection "Old New York". It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 305 performances at the Empire Theatre in 1935.
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The Waverley Gallery The Waverly Gallery is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. It is considered a "memory play". The show, first produced Off-Broadway in 2000, follows a grandson watching his grandmother slowly die from Alzheimer's disease. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2001.
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American Repertory Theater The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is a professional not-for-profit theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1980 by Robert Brustein, the A.R.T. is known for its commitment to new American plays and music–theater explorations; to neglected works of the past; and to established classical texts reinterpreted in refreshing new ways. Over the past thirty years it has garnered many of the nation's most distinguished awards, including a Pulitzer Prize (1982), a Tony Award (1986), and a Jujamcyn Award (1985). In December 2002, the A.R.T. was the recipient of the National Theatre Conference's Outstanding Achievement Award, and in May 2003 it was named one of the top three theaters in the country by "Time" Magazine. The A.R.T. is housed in the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University. The A.R.T. houses the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and the Harvard-Radcliffe Drama Club.
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The Guinea Pig (Chetham-Strode) The Guinea Pig is a 3 Act play by Warren Chetham-Strode. The work premiered on London's West End at the Criterion Theatre in 1946 and starred Rachel Gurney as Lynne Hartley. An immense success, the play was soon adapted into a 1948 film starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim.
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Sons of the Prophet Sons of the Prophet is a play by Stephen Karam. It is a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American family and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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The Tender Years The Tender Years is a 1948 American drama film directed by Harold D. Schuster and written by Arnold Belgard, Abem Finkel and Jack Jungmeyer. The film stars Joe E. Brown, Richard Lyon, Noreen Nash, Charles Drake, Josephine Hutchinson and James Millican. The film was released on January 3, 1948, by 20th Century Fox.
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The Homecoming The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and it was first published in 1965. Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall and starred Pinter's first wife, Vivien Merchant, as Ruth. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play. Its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for "Best Revival of a Play".
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A House Not Meant to Stand A House Not Meant to Stand is the last play written by Tennessee Williams. It was produced during the 1981–82 season at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago by Gregory Mosher and published for the first time in 2008 by New Directions. with a foreword by Gregory Mosher and an Introduction by Thomas Keith.
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The Crucible (opera) The Crucible is an English language opera written by Robert Ward based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. It won both the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critics Circle Citation. The libretto was lightly adapted from Miller's text by Bernard Stambler.
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1948 Pulitzer Prize The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1948.
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The Trip to Bountiful (play) The Trip to Bountiful is a play by American playwright Horton Foote. The play premiered March 1, 1953 on NBC-TV, before being produced on the Broadway stage November 3 – December 5, 1953.
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The Clay Pigeon The Clay Pigeon is a 1949 American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Carl Foreman, based on a true story. The drama features Bill Williams and Barbara Hale, real-life husband and wife.