Paul Mescal-Led A Streetcar Named Desire Sets U.S. Debut Off-Broadway

Normal People star Paul Mescal will make his U.S. stage debut in A Streetcar Named Desire at Brooklyn Academy of Music, a transfer of a 2022 staging from London's Almeida Theatre. The revival has been long rumored to be crossing the pond, with some outlets recently reporting it would make a Broadway bow. The November 11 announcement is the first official news of the Off-Broadway bow.

The production will arrive in the U.S. with much of its London cast, including Mescal's Olivier-winning performance as Stanley Kowalski, Anjana Vasan's Olivier-winning Stella, Patsy Ferren as Blanche Du Bois, and Dwane Walcott as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell. Rebecca Frecknall, currently represented on Broadway with Cabaret, will again direct. Performances will run February 28-April 6, 2025, at the BAM Strong's Harvey Theater.

The cast will also include Eduardo Ackerman as Pablo Gonzales, Janet Etuk as Eunice Hubbel, Alexander Eliot as Steve Hubbel, Gabriela Garcia as Flower Seller-Nurse-Singer, Tom Penn as Doctor-Drummer, and Jabez Sykes as Young Collector. Understudies Rob Dempsey, Francesca Knight, Curtis Patrick, and Constanza Ruff will round out the company.

The revival of the Tennessee Williams play features scenic design by Madeleine Girling, lighting design by Lee Curran, sound design by Peter Rice, costume design by Merle Hensel, and music by Angus MacRae. The U.S. run is being produced by ATG Productions and Almeida Theatre, Gavin Kalin Productions, Wessex Grove, GGRS and LAMedia Fund with Rupert Gavin/Mallory Factor, Francesca Moody Productions, and Oliver Roth.

Prior to the Off-Broadway run, the production will play the Noël Coward Theatre in London's West End February 3-22, 2025.

Streetcar is part of Brooklyn Academy of Music's newly announced winter and spring 2025 season, which also includes Whitney White's R&B-infused Macbeth in Stride, being presented by BAM in association with Philadelphia Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre April 15-28, 2025, at the BAM Strong's Harvey Theater. White has both written and will star in the work, which explores what it means to be an ambitious Black woman through the lens of Shakespeare. Tyler Dobrowsky and Taibi Magar are co-directing, with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly.

Berliner Ensemble's The Threepenny Opera, directed by Barrie Kosky, will perform April 3-6, 2025, at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, a co-presentation between BAM and St. Ann's Warehouse.

The season also includes Baba Israel's Word. Sound. Power 2025—Power to the Poets, Max Richter and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble's The Blue Notebooks and In A Landscape, performances from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Batsheva Dance Company, and a family season featuring Gimme Please!, BAMkids Celebrates MLK: If You Can't Be the Sun, Be a Star!; and BAMkids Film Festival.

Find full details at BAM.org.