Liv Ullmann News

Want to see the hot new revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire"? You're too late. The entire 24-day run of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Liv Ullmann-directed production of the Tennessee Williams classic - starring Cate Blanchett - is sold out.

With her large, if rare, grin and high forehead, Liv Ullmann was always the least dreamy of the axiomatic New Waveera actresses - she was no one's Anna Karina or Monica Vitti - and the most discomfitingly fierce.

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.

Angels, Fear, and Dread: Miller's Prior finds hope beneath his shroud. Angels in America: Perestroika By Tony Kushner; Directed by Michael Dove; Produced by Forum Theatre A Streetcar Named Desire By Tennessee Williams; Directed by Liv Ullmann; Produced by the Sydney Theatre Company In a week of big-deal shows, the most ambitious production may be ...

Photo: AFP Clare Morgan November 4, 2009 AMERICAN reviewers have been lunging for superlatives to describe Cate Blanchett's performance in the Sydney Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire in Washington.

It was almost a romantic moment, according to Liv Ullmann: Ingmar opened the door and said welcome.

Ever since I heard Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' muscular and highly theatrical contemporary score for "Chess," I have been eager for another soaring musical from them.

"Kristina"at Carnegie Hall than to speak to Helen Sjholm, who plays the show's heroine, and Kevin Odekirk, who gets to sing the big hit "The Gold Turned Into Sand" as the doomer Robert? Helen, you originated the part of Kristina in 1995.

If you're a fan -- as I am -- of Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann, you may not realize that she is open about her faith in God.

The Norwegian International Ibsen Award for 2009 was on Friday presented to Ariane Mnouchkine, director of the Thtre du Soleil in Paris, France, by Ibsen Committe chairman Liv Ullmann.

A Sydney Theater Company, UBS Investment Bank presentation of a play in two acts by Tennessee Williams.

Bleak City has been left behind, says Raymond Gill. CATE Blanchett stars as Blanche DuBois in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire , opening there tonight, and as you'd expect there's not a single ticket to be had for the entire season, which runs until October 17.

Magical ... Cate Blanchett and Tim Richards in rehearsal for A Streetcar Named Desire .

Ingmar Bergman's home on FA rA provided the backdrop to many of his films. Shouldn't it be saved for public use rather than be sold off to the highest bidder? No place like home a Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann on the set of Autumn Sonata.

JUL 11, 2009 - THE PLOT OF PERSONA IS SIMPLICITY ITSELF. Elisabeth Vogler , a theatre star, stops speaking during a performance of Electra ; Alma is commissioned to nurse her back to normalcy on an island retreat.

Genre: Period Drama Directed by: Jan Troell Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Emil Jensen, Ghita Norby It's hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early 1970s - an era a little more open to foreign-language and "artsy" films in the mainstream - when Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell was considered almost in the ...

The Ibsen Award , worth about $500,000, has just been given to director Ariane Mnouchkine.

The evening gowns glittered, the red carpet was unfurled - and the 3-D glasses were at hand as the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened Wednesday.

EMOTIONS will run high tomorrow as celebs join survivors at the National Meningitis Association Benefit.