Performances
UNA Summer Theatre
Phone: 256.765.5122
UNA Box 5040
Florence, AL 35632-0001
Guest Artists:
A Streetcar Named Desire
Location: George S. Lindsey TheatreFragile, delusional southern belle Blanche DuBois moves to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella, and her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, in a dingy apartment. Temperaments clash, fireworks fly, and secrets are revealed in Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.
The Professional Company
The UNA Summer Theatre production of A Streetcar Named Desire is being directed by two-time Tony Award nominated director Randal Myler, who has directed at numerous theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other locations. Myler has written several musicals, including It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues; Love, Janis; and Hank Williams: Lost Highway.
Professional actors appearing in the production will be Myk Watford, star of Broadway and the blockbuster film No Country for Old Men, as Stanley; Elaine Hendrix, star of Disney’s The Parent Trap, as Blanche; and UNA theatre faculty Charlton James as Mitch.
Ticket Information
- General Admission - $20
- UNA employees & Seniors - $10
- Students - $5
For ticket reservations: Call 256.765.5122 or email: cmmaynard@una.edu
About UNA Summer Theatre
UNA Summer Theatre has as its mission the establishment of a professional resident theatre company at UNA dedicated to bringing the great classics of the American theatre tradition to the Shoals. Housed in the newly constructed George S. Lindsey Theatre, UNA Summer Theatre has at its core a commitment to the highest standards of theatrical production on a scale previously unattained in this region, employing professional actors and technical personnel to work alongside UNA faculty and students.
Each year UNA Summer Theatre brings to the UNA campus professional Broadway and Hollywood theatre artists, providing them with an environment that is conducive to nurturing the creative processes of professional-caliber theatre. The visiting professional guest artists work in collaboration with a young company of actors, designers, and theatre technicians handpicked from current UNA theatre majors and UNA theatre alums, along with select individuals from the Shoals theatre community. This type of creative environment provides theatre professionals with an ideal setting in which to work, allowing them freedom and autonomy to nurture and inspire UNA students and local theatre artists.
The goal of UNA Summer Theatre is to make the UNA campus and the Shoals community a destination of choice for professional actors who seek a refreshing and invigorating summer venue in which to invest their creative energies and share their gifts with aspiring artists.
This year, the UNA Summer Theatre program has selected a work that is considered by most to be one of the greatest plays ever written by an American playwright, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Tony-nominated Randal Myler and starring acclaimed actor, and director of last year’s UNA Summer Theatre production, Myk Watford as Stanley. He will be joined by renowned Hollywood actress Elaine Hendrix as Blanche. Subsequent seasons will present other great American plays, such as Our Town, The Grapes of Wrath, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Glass Menagerie, Of Mice and Men, and A Raisin in the Sun.
