A Streetcar Named Desire (play)

A Streetcar Named Desire is a LGBT-related play written by Tennessee Williams that was first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947. Blanche DuBois, the protagonist confesses to Mitch that once she was married to a young man, Allan Grey, whom she later discovered in a sexual encounter with an older man. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves behind her privileged background to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans that her younger sister and brother-in-law have rented.

Williams' most popular work, A Streetcar Named Desire, is considered one of the finest and most critically acclaimed plays of the twentieth century. It still ranks among his most performed plays, and has inspired many adaptations in other forms, notably producing a critically acclaimed film that was released in 1951.