Stepping up to 'Streetcar'
New Rep actors focus on the characters of this classic, not the film stars who made the roles famous
WATERTOWN — Sixty years after its Broadway debut, ‘‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’’ Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of desperation and disappointment, still packs an emotional punch. But with the iconographic images of Elia Kazan’s film version — a young, hunky Marlon Brando shouting out Stanley’s sexual desire for Stella, the indelible Vivien Leigh as the fluttering, faded Southern belle Blanche ... (Full article: 1175 words)
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