The Streetcar Project is headed to Washington D.C. The site-specific touring production, which presents the full unabridged text of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire with no set or props, will play the historic abandoned subway platform Dupont Underground April 20-May 4, 2026.
The project, created by Nick Westrate and Lucy Owen, has been playing site-specific runs in NYC; Aspen, Colorado; Asbury Park, New Jersey; and Los Angeles, California for the last two years, including private homes, a SoHo fashion boutique, movie theatres, churches, barns, warehouses, art galleries, factories, and other unusual venues. An upcoming run at San Francisco's ACT will be the production's premiere in a traditional theatre space.
Casting for the D.C. bow is to be announced.
“From the very beginning, we have stripped down this seminal American play to its raw, beating emotional core,” say Westrate and Owen in a statement. “We’re dedicated to taking Streetcar to new depths, and we cannot wait to bring it underground.”
“Bringing A Streetcar Named Desire to Dupont Underground is a powerful alignment of place and story," adds Dupont Underground CEO Ana Harvey. “This bold reimagining by The Streetcar Project resonates deeply with our mission to foster intimate, emotionally charged, and artistically daring work. We are thrilled to welcome this groundbreaking production and to continue transforming forgotten public space into a living, breathing home for extraordinary theatre.”
A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in December 1947, playing 855 performances before closing in December 1949. Directed by Elia Kazan, the original company boasted Jessica Tandy as Blanche, Marlon Brando as Stanley, and Kim Hunter as Stella. The play would go on to win the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
In the Williams classic, when Blanche unexpectedly visits her estranged sister Stella, she brings with her a past that will threaten their future. As Stella’s husband Stanley stalks closer to the truth, Blanche's fragile world begins to fracture.
More info is at TheStreetcarProject.com.
