Tennessee Williams Annual Review 2022 21

IN THIS ISSUE In 1947, A Streetcar Named Desire premiered on Broadway, where the first performance received a seven-minute standing ovation. The 2022 issue of the Review commemorates the debut's 75th anniversary and the play's universal appeal with images from HNOC's exhibition Backstage at "A Streetcar Named Desire": rarely seen photographs taken on the set of the 1951 film join images of early stage productions around the world, Kazan's director's notebook, and more. Essays dive into the play's first stage productions in Brazil and the USSR, discuss Blanche's tragic young husband, and follow Williams's iconic heroine into her twenty-first-century incarnation in Blue Jasmine.