Kindness Of Strangers Has LImits: School Threatens Artist

“The University of the South, which owns the intellectual property rights for [Tennessee] Williams’s ‘Streetcar Named Desire,’ has threatened legal action to stop performances of the one-man show ‘Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire,’ which is scheduled to run through March 15 at SoHo Playhouse.” The play is about “a modern-day Blanche weathering Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Superdome and a subsequent job placement as a cashier at Popeye’s.”