This Week's Broadway Hit - STREET CAR NAMED DESIRE - Tennessee Williams

By Associated Press, Updated: Sunday, April 22, 6:48 PM

NEW YORK — In the end, Stanley will have his awful, violent revenge on Blanche. She will see it coming — she’http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifll struggle, her eyes will go wide like a deer’s and she’ll try to bolt. But he’ll get her and thehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifn he will surely break her. What the races are of the actors on stage is immaterial.

The new revival of Tennessee Williams’ often brutal “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which features African-Americans in the lead roles, opened Sunday at the Broadhurst Theatre as a reminder of the power of the writing.

An excellent ensemble cast — a fragile Nicole Ari Parker stars as the doomed Blanche, a swaggering Blair Underwood as Stanley, a spitfire Daphne Rubin-Vega as Stella and a laconic Wood Harris as Mitch — combines under taut directing from Emily Mann to create a fresh way to enjoy an iconic play.

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