Theater Review: A Streetcar Named Desire at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By | On Jun 24, 2011Williamstown Theatre Festival
A Streetcar Named Desire
Nikos Stage
June 22-July 3, 2011
Review by Seth Rogovoy
June 24, 2011
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., June 23, 2011) – Every production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is haunted by the ghost of Elia Kazan’s film version starring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. Wise are those actors and directors who pretend it doesn’t exist, which seems to be the case in the fascinating version playing now at Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Nikos Stage – and aptly so, given the legendary Nikos Psacharapoulos’s penchant for producing Williams at Williamstown.
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