Natasha Richardson takes to Broadway stage

British actress Natasha Richardson will portray Tennessee Williams’s fragile, faded Southern beauty Blanche du Bois in a Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, opening next spring.

The rest of the cast and the revival’s production team, including the director, will be announced shortly. Performances begin in March 2005 at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54. No opening date has been set.