Bay Street Theater’s Literature Live! series will return next Thursday at 7 p.m. with “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play that premiered on Broadway in 1947 under the direction of Elia Kazan.
One of the most critically acclaimed plays of the 20th century, “Streetcar” dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister, Stella, and her brother-in-law, Stanley.
Directed by Stephen Hamilton, the co-founder and original executive director of Bay Street Theater, the cast features Shea Buckner at Stanley Kowalski, Daniela Mastropietro as Blanche DuBois, Katie Rodgers as Stella Kowalski, Sawyer A. Spielberg as Harold (Mitch) Mitchell, Nicole Marie Hunt as Eunice Hubbell, Joe Pallister as Steve Hubbell, Carlos Garcia as Pablo Gonzalez, Matthew Conlon as the doctor, and Adelaide Mestre as the nurse and the Mexican woman.
Mr. Buckner’s recent roles include guest leads in the television series “The Blacklist” and “The Equalizer,” and he has been featured in episodes of “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “Animal Kingdom,” “Shameless,” and “How to Get Away with Murder.”
Ms. Mastropietro has appeared as Lady Macbeth for Hudson Theatreworks, Masha in “Three Sisters” at Columbia University, and Annette in “God of Carnage” at the Blue Room in Chico, Calif.
Ms. Rodgers’s past credits include Maggie in “The Scarlet Savior” (Off Broadway), Carole King in “Beautiful” (Savannah College of Art and Design), and Maria in “The Sound of Music” (regional).
Recently seen in the Apple TV+ series “Masters of the Air,” Mr. Spielberg’s film credits include “Honeydew,” “Merry Good Enough,” “A Martyr of Gowanus,” and “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” which was just shown at the Hamptons International Film Festival.
Ms. Hunt has performed in many regional and Off Broadway theaters, including the Detroit Repertory Theatre, Theatre Nova in Ann Arbor, Mich., Meadow Brook Theatre in Rochester, Mich., and The Tank in New York City.
In addition to seven Bay Street Theater productions, Mr. Pallister’s stage credits include “The Shawshank Redemption,” “A Steady Rain,” “Art,” “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” and “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Mr. Garcia’s theater roles have included Proteus from “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” Roderigo from “Othello,” and Edmond from David Mamet’s “Edmond.”
Ms. Mestre’s full-length musical memoir, “Top Drawer,” premiered in the New York International Fringe Festival and has been produced at theaters in New York and nationally, including most recently at The Church in Sag Harbor and the Southampton Cultural Center.
Now in its 16th year, Literature Live! is a BOCES-approved Arts-in-Education program designed specifically for middle school and high school students, with their teachers and administrators. Plays are chosen from standards-based literature and are supported with teacher-developed lesson plans and reference materials. All performances are free for school groups.
Public performances will run through Dec. 1, with tickets priced from $49.99 to $119.98. Showtimes are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m., and Nov. 29 and Dec. 1 at 2. There is no performance on Thanksgiving, Nov. 28. Free performances are available for school groups starting Tuesday and can be arranged by contacting Allen O’Reilly, director of education and community outreach, at [email protected] or by calling 631-725-0818.
