Cate Blanchett Takes Main Stage

Cate Blanchett and director husband Andrew Upton pose at the official launch of the Sydney Theatre Company’s “2009 Main Stage Season” at the Wharf Restaurant on Monday in Sydney, Australia. (The couple currently serve as artistic directors of STC.)

The forthcoming Australian production of Tennessee Williams‘ A Streetcar Named Desire will hit U.S. theaters late next year. The play directed by Liv Ullmann and starring Cate as faded Southern rose Blanche DuBois, will travel to the U.S. late next year. You can catch performances of Streetcar at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater during Nov. 27-Dec. 20. 2009.

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