Michael Riedel: “I’m also hearing that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been approached to play Stanley and Stella Kowalski in a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, opening early next year.” (No conrracts have yet been signed.) The revival will be directed by Emily Mann and produced by Stephen Byrd, who presented the all-black 2007 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Terrence Howard and Anika Noni Rose.