PRESS
“How could one possibly elevate Williams’s masterpiece? By going underground, it turns out.”
“When intermission and the curtain call come, you might have to stage a mental reintegration ritual for yourself. ‘Oh, right,’ you remember as the lights come up, ‘I was a person with a life before I walked into the theater tonight.’”
“It is an excellent “Streetcar” precisely because its energies are dedicated entirely to the human forces driving the play’s tragedy.”
“Owen and Westrate seem totally uninterested in what this mid-century play once was, favoring instead what it could mean to future audiences.”
“This bare bones approach also gives us in the audience nowhere else to look: no set elements to judge or props in hand, nothing to pull focus from the performances of four highly-skilled actors. There are dozens of almost magical moments on display here.”
"The production…starts with a stab of shock, then keeps slowly turning its knife blade throughout.”
“Stripped-to-the-bone… with a raw ravishing star turn from Lucy Owen.”
“Williams’s high-octane drama hits harder than ever. Stripped to its core and ingeniously directed, this extra-provocative Streetcar Named Desire brings the heat of New Orleans to DC.”
“A thesis could be written about this Streetcar…”
Town & Country Magazine’s
“Best Theater We Saw in 2024”
“The Streetcar Project hammers home the timeless power of Blanche, Stanley, and Stella: directed by Nick Westrate and starring Lucy Owen, Brad Koed, Mallory Portnoy, and Will Rogers, it stripped the well-tread story of any artifice and delivered the steaminess, struggle, and sex appeal of the play in its most raw form.”
“A once-in-a-lifetime event…Using only four actors inside a warehouse, Westrate strips-down what may be one of the best plays ever written into a completely new experience.”
— Tony Frankel, Stage and Cinema
“No set, period costumes, or supporting cast. They grind Tennessee Williams’s characters to the bare bones, like animals marking their territory and ripping one another to shreds.”
— Jonas Schwartz, Theater Mania
“The focus was on Williams’ words…The production’s simplicity ditched the cliches that have accumulated around the play over decades.”
— Charles McNulty, LA Times
“There is a muscular purity in The Streetcar Project, a bold counterpoint to the delicate, poetic beauty of Tennessee William’s language. This production feels contemporary and fresh, with an edgy, f-you, punk rock rebelliousness.”
- Amanda Callas, Broadway World
“Truly thrilling in a way that’s hard to even describe, it’s a production you should absolutely seek out if/when it plays near you.”
— Kevin Taft, We Live Entertainment
“As many times as I have seen this classic play, this time it was easier to focus on the characters and how their words share their inner turmoil, emotional flaws, and motivations based on physical need or loneliness.”
— Shari Barrette, Culver City News
