Bay Street: Literature Live / 2024 — Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire / 11.14 – 12.1st

BAY STREET THEATER ANNOUNCES
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
AS SELECTED WORK FOR
16th Annual 2024 LITERATURE LIVE! Series

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NOVEMBER 14 – DECEMBER 1
WITH FREE SCHOOL PERFORMANCES
STARTING NOVEMBER 12TH
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——————A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is a powerful exploration of desire and mental fragility, following Blanche DuBois as she confronts her troubled past while residing with her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley in New Orleans. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948 and has become a timeless classic, hailed for its profound impact on American theater.

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As part of the programming of Literature Live!, free performances are available to school groups. Teachers and administrators may register their school groups by contacting Director of Education & Community Outreach, Allen O’Reilly, at allen@baystreet.org or by calling 631.725.0818. Free admission is available to all school students, teachers, and administrators who can reserve weekday performances at times that work for them on a first-come, first-serve basis. Literature Live! is an annual BOCES-approved Arts-in-Education program where teachers are provided curriculum guides in advance to help with content and additional aspects of learning. A talkback and Q&A session with various members of the cast and crew team members and the audience will follow each performance.

Now in its 16th year, Literature Live! was started by Bay Street Theater’s Executive Director Tracy Mitchell: ”This program came about when seeing how little of the performing arts were being incorporated into my own daughter’s curriculum. I was shocked because my own exposure to theater had been so life-changing, and I can’t imagine if I hadn’t had that, what experiences I would have missed out on in my own life.” Bay Street Theater is committed to supporting students with little or no access to the performing arts in schools. To date, Bay Street has served over 80 schools and over 43,000 students, including those with special needs, homeschoolers, and students from as far away as New Jersey and New York City in person, and numerous others across the country with digital access during COVID-19. 

Literature Live! is sponsored by Burner Prudenti Law, PSEG Long Island, and more forthcoming!

Tickets for the public start at $39.99 and are available online 24/7 at baystreet.org or by calling the Box Office at 631-725-9500, open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 30 minutes before performances. 

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About the Director – Stephen Hamilton 

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In 1991, Stephen co-founded Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, NY with Emma Walton Hamilton, and Sybil Christopher. In his seventeen years as Executive Director of BST, Hamilton oversaw over 50 productions including Jon Robin Baitz’ adaptation of Hedda Gabler (Tony nomination, Kate Burton), and Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend (Julie Andrews’ directorial debut and National Tour).  Other new plays under his tenure included work from Paula Vogel, Lanford Wilson, Cynthia Ozick, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Chris Durang, and Rick Dresser featuring performances by Cherry Jones, Alan Alda, Diane Weist, Richard Dreyfus, Mercedes Ruehl, and Twiggy.

Stephen serves as Executive Director of South Fork Bakery. (southforkbakery.org.) He and his wife, author/educator Emma Walton Hamilton, live in Sag Harbor. They have two children, Sam and Hope. http://stevehamiltoncoaching.com/

Stephen’s credits include – NYC:Angry Young Man by Ben Woolf at Urban Stages (American Premiere), The Furies by Neil LaBute, 59 E.59^th Street   
Regional: Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman at LTV Studios.  All My Sons with Alec Baldwin and Laurie Metcalf at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton, NY.  Gross Points, by Ira Lewis with Alec Baldwin at Bay Street Theatre (World Premiere), Ben Woolf’s Angry Young Man at the John Drew Theatre. (American Premiere)  Also at the John Drew: ‘ART’, The Night Alive,Uncle Vanya, The Cripple of Inishmaan, RED.  The Dirty Talk by Michael Puzzo at The Clubhouse.
Opera:Acis and Galatea at the Catskill Mountain Foundation.

Director Stephen Hamilton

THE CRUCIBLE – 2023

ALL THINGS EQUAL – 2022

DEATH OF A SALESMAN – 2017