‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ on real streetcar tracks? Only at Dupont Underground.
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It was a sticky summer night and Blanche DuBois was descending into madness — not on a proscenium stage, mind you, but in a carousel house off the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. And the soundtrack to the evening? The hip-hop beats of Cypress Hill, whose neighboring concert offered uncannily apt lyrics for the stripped-down staging of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
