Liv Ullman to Talk STREETCAR at Paley Center, 12/14

Liv Ullmann, living legend of cinema and theater, has just directed a production of A Streetcar Named Desire that stars Cate Blanchett and opens at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music in November. While Ullmann was preparing that production, a documentary, The Sealed Orders of Liv Ullmann, captured her mentoring young actors through scenes from this same Tennessee Williams play. The Paley Center will premiere this film by four-time Academy Award nominees Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman, on December 14 at 6:30pm at The Paley Center for Media.

The documentary underscores the importance of passing artistic experience from one generation to the next. After the screening, Ullmann will discuss her adaptation of Streetcar and various television versions of the play from the Paley Center collection. Simon and Goodman will also be on hand for the discussion.

The Sydney Theatre Company's Production of Steetcar features Academy Award-winning actress/Sydney Theatre Company Co-Artistic Director Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois, Joel Edgerton at Stanley Kowalski, Robin McLeavey as Stella Kowalski, and Tim Richards as Mitch. The production marks Liv Ullmann's U.S. directorial debut. The presentation features set design by Ralph Myers, costume design by Tess Schofield, lighting design by Nick Schlieper, and sound design by Paul Charlier.

'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the story of the determined, yet fragile, repressed and delicate Blanche DuBois, set in the New Orleans apartment of her sister, Stella, and animalistic brother-in-law, Stanley. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play opened on Broadway in New York in 1947 and guaranteed Williams' status as one of the major American Playwrights.

Streetcar played Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center from October 29 - November 21, and is now playing at the BAM Harvey Theater, where it began performances on Nov 27 and runs through December 19. Tickets are $30, $65, $95 (Tues-Thurs); $40, $80, $120 (Fri-Sun) and can be purchased by calling 718.636.4100 or by visiting BAM.org.

Liv Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and director, who rose to fame as the lead in 9 Igmar Bergman films. Ullmann has appeared on the stage and in movies all over the world. She has been nominated twice for an Academy Award and five years in a row the National Board of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle named her the best film actress in the world. Ullmann made her Broadway debut as Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House in 1975 and has since starred on Broadway in Ghosts, I Remember Mama and Anna Christie. She has also appeared multiple times in London's West End, in Scandinavia, in Los Angeles and in Sydney in 1979 with Cocteau's The Human Voice. She has directed three feature movies and one short film, two of which were written by Ingmar Bergman.

Tickets to the Paley Center event are $15 for members, $20 for the general public.

For further information, visit: www.paleycenter.org.