Blair Underwood—who most recently made his Broadway debut in the role of Stanley in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire — will star in the title role of Shakespeare‘s classic tragedy Othello, the first show of San Diego‘s Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Festival. Joining him and also making their Globe
The television drama Ironside, which was about wheelchair-bound detective Robert T. Ironside, ran for eight seasons in the 1960s and 1970s and starred able bodied actor Raymond Burr.
Blair Underwood is stepping into pretty big shoes when he stars as Stanley Kowalski in the current revival of Tennessee Williams’ iconic play.
Blair Underwood will make his Broadway debut next season as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, the The New York Post is reporting.
Blair Underwood and Zeljko Ivanek on The Event, working together, being typecast and how they still don’t know what the ‘event’ really is!
“I’d watch the kids on TV and think how cool that must be. I wanted to know, ‘How do I get in that box like those other kids?,'” he said.
