After serving as source material for last year’s brilliant Blue Jasmine, Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer-winning play returns to the big screen at SIFF in two versions: 4:15 p.m. brings the classic 1951 film version, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Vivien Leigh and an astounding Marlon Brando, and 7 p.m. brings the broadcast of the National Theatre’s acclaimed 2014 stage production, set in the present day and starring Gillian Anderson as Blanche DuBois. Keeping Streetcar forever relevant: its subjects (sex, money, family, mental illness) and Williams’s beautiful script. (SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, siff.net, 4:15 and 7 pm, $9 film/$20 stage production, through Oct 9)

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...