A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams receiving 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 Theater. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Jessica Tandy, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando, 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 Twentieth Century and is generally considered to be Williams’ greatest work.