Topic: Blanche DuBois

Theater, film and television actress Shirley Knight died Wednesday of natural causes, her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins shared on Facebook.

"X-Files" star Gillian Anderson's onstage performance as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" will be screened in theaters beginning September 16.

Gillian Anderson is to play Blanche DuBois in a London staging of the classic drama "A Streetcar Named Desire" next year, producers announced.

Cate Blanchett was injured when her co-star in the Sydney stage production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" accidentally hit her with a radio during a fight scene.

A play about film icon Vivien Leigh is among the works set to be staged this winter at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre.

Actress/singer Jane Lawrence Smith, the widow of architect and sculptor Tony Smith, has died in New York at age 90. Her family said she died Aug. 5 at her home, the New York Times reported Monday.

British actress Natasha Richardson says she is taking a brief break from playing troubled women to spend some quality time with her family.

An upcoming Center production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" casts Brian F. O'Bryne, Adam Rothenberg and Amy Ryan in key roles of the Washington production.

Tony award-winning actress and esteemed drama coach Uta Hagen has died at her New York City home. She was 84.