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Forget swine flu - is madness contagious? You might think so, after watching the Sydney Theatre Company's riveting version of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire .

Health-care overhaul isn't the only thing that's got Washington tied in knots these days: Theater geeks in the nation's capital have been consumed with conflicting passions about a sold-out production of A Streetcar Named Desire - with Cate Blanchett as a Blanche DuBois who's jumpier than some - that's been running at the Kennedy Center since late ...

Makeup by Jo Strettell/The Magnet Agency .) 'S he's not a great actress,' Liv Ullmann says, explaining why the Blanche DuBois in her production of A Streetcar Named Desire seems so shaky from the moment she arrives at her sister's French Quarter apartment.

At the height of her movie stardom, Cate Blanchett puts her commitment to the theater center stage - and, writes Adam Green, takes on one of the great dramatic roles of all time.

It was a theatrical convergence of three continents. Over lunch in London, the actress from Australia and the actress from Norway decided they had to find a way under the skin of the neurotic belle from the American South.

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"So many people have condemned the play for its sordid theme," Vivien Leigh said in a 1950s interview about Tennessee Williams ' "A Streetcar Named Desire," the vehicle for one of her most indelible achievements as an actress.

Cate Blanchett and Liv Ullmann conducted an impromptu lesson over the weekend in the duties, delights, and hierarchies of star power -- with the help of the Australian embassy.

"Would I mind? Only if I can get a copy," teased Academy Award-winning actress Cate Blanchett when asked if she would pose for a picture with her fellow Aussie, Ron Barassi , a football legend in their home country.

STREETCAR BELLE: "Look, it's timing and luck," Blanchett says of her success as a screen and stage actress.

FRESH from giving a stirring performance in the lead role as Blanche Dubois, Cate Blanchett called it "soft diplomacy". With fellow cast members of the Sydney Theatre Company, Blanchett last night presented the premiere of the 1947 Tennessee Williams drama A Streetcar Named Desire at Washington's Kennedy Centre for Performing Arts.

Dylan is back in town. OK, Bob Dylan isn't actually back in the Catskill region, but his likeness will be shown plenty of times in the 2007 film "I'm Not There," showing at 7 p.m. Thursday at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

THEY are the unsung heroes of the arts. And now they are needed, en masse. Four performing arts companies, all based in Sydney, are scouting for new general managers after coincidental concurrent resignations.

Seeing Cate Blanchett starrer epic 'Indian Summer' is put on hold because of budgetary constraints, Indo-Americans have urged the Bollywood filmmakers to step forward to make a movie on this historic milestone of India.

A message of hope led Lucienne Simon to pursue an exhibit depicting the Great Depression that's on display through Dec.

Caption: Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton The Helpmann 2009 Awards held at Sydney Opera House Sydney, Australia .... Indian historians are urging the country's top filmmakers to take advantage of problems surrounding CATE BLANCHETT's new movie - and make their own version of the scandalous events that led up to the nation's independence.

LOOKING surprisingly fresh despite being on stage for almost three hours, leading lady Cate Blanchett celebrated the end of one sell-out season for A Streetcar Named Desire and the start of another on Saturday night, as the Bruce Beresford production prepares for its Washington and New York run next month.

IT WAS a battle that, according to Shakespeare, would be remembered till 'the ending of the world'. And almost six centuries after the exhausted and disease-ridden army of Henry V defeated the much larger French forces at the Battle of Agincourt, it is still seen as one of this country's greatest victories.

Joaquim de Almeida and Kim Basinger: wea re not buying. As the writer of Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, Guillermo Arriaga packaged empty banalities as deep truths for art-house audiences.

First off, a hearty congratulations to Elijah Wood for his winning performance in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring .