On this episode of It’s Showtime with Rikki Lee, heralded director Elizabeth Swanson joins host Rikki Lee Travolta to discuss “A Streetcar Named Desire” running through April 21, 2024, as a part of Paramount Theatre’s BOLD Series in downtown Aurora, just outside Chicago.

Swanson, who recently completed tenure as the artistic director of BoHo Theatre, co-directs the American classic with Paramount artistic director Jim Corti. During the interview, Swanson describes working with the Chicago theatre legend and the process of bringing Tennessee Williams’ most famous work to Paramount’s Copley Theatre.

Corti and Swanson have not taken a passive approach with “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The interpretation Swanson describes has the exciting potential to be a game-changer and truly historic.

One of Chicago’s premier directing talents, Swanson explains the path that brought them to this point in their career. Swanson also relates how those experiences flavor and influence their approach to helming a production. They especially go into detail on how they collaborated with Corti and a cast that includes Amanda Drinkall, Casey Hoekstra, and television’s Alina Taber to create characters that are true to the text yet fresh, impactful, and perhaps even genius.

Order tickets now to what promises to be an emotionally moving and thought-provoking roller coaster of angst, passion, love, lust, hopes, sorrows, and struggles for power. This show will be the stuff of legends.

For tickets call the box office at (630) 896-6666 or visit www.ParamountAurora.com.