CLARKSVILLE, Tenn (CLARKSVILLENOW) – One of the greatest works of American theater is coming to Clarksville’s oldest professional theater this month.
Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ will open at the Roxy Regional Theater on Friday, March 13, at 8:00 p.m. In keeping with the theatre’s pay-what-you-can opening night tradition, all tickets not pre-sold at the regular price will go on sale at 7:30 p.m that evening for a $5 minimum donation.
Austin Peay State University theater professor Sara Anderson stars as fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois, who moves to New Orleans, where her sister, Stella (Emma Jordan), and her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Adam Zarowski), live a modest life in the French Quarter.
Blanche’s affectations of refinement set her immediately at odds with blue-collar Stanley, who is further incensed when he learns his wife’s inheritance, the family estate, has been forfeited to creditors. The Kowalskis’ dingy apartment quickly becomes a powder keg, ultimately erupting in some of the most iconic dramatic moments seen on the modern stage.
Performances run March 13 through March 28 on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m, with a 2:00 p.m. matinee on Saturday, March 21.
Tickets are $25 (adults) and $15 (13 and under) and may be reserved online at www.roxyregionaltheatre.org, by phone at (931) 645-7699, or at the theater during regular box office hours (9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m, Monday through Friday, and one hour prior to curtain). Military, APSU students and CitySaver coupon holders can receive two tickets for the price of one to Thursday performances during the run.