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Review: Strong acting propels ACT’s minimalistic ‘Streetcar Named Desire’  

Would Tennessee Williams have liked The Streetcar Project’s production of his most famous play, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that follows the destitute Blanche as she seeks refuge with her sister Stella and Stella’s rough-and-tumble husband Stanley Kowalski?  Williams, never a hyper-realistic playwright, created a sometimes dream-like atmosphere. The published script of “Streetcar” begins with a page-long description of how he imagined the set: “The sky that shows […]

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