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Detroit's quest for its first Stanley Cup championship in 40 years got off on the right foot as Vyacheslav Kozlov snapped a 3-3 tie at 10:15 of the third period to defeat Dallas...
Esme Howard is a fetching Blanche, lithe and ethereal to Jordanna Brodsky's more earthy, sensual Stella. Their slight awkwardness onstage works well in the first act as the two sisters attempt to reestablish the patterns of their relationship while skirting Stanley's animal force...
...good comic instincts, as when she wickedly tells a bashful young man collecting for the paper (Charles B. Grandy), "I'd like to keep you, but I've got to be good, and keep my hands off little children." And Brodsky is winningly earnest. She and Nick Gordon's Stanley have no trouble expressing the young couple's physical attraction to each other...
Gordon is as good a Stanley as could be found on a college stage, and occassionally better. Half-naked, he snarls and grunts like the ape Blanche terms him, while never losing his fundamental intelligence. Gordon and Howard work well together as characters who recognize that despite their divergent facades, they are disturbingly similar...
...Wittwer's set creates a vivid sense of the Kowalski's home with minimal fuss. On side of the stage supports a grainy two-story photograph of a typical French Quarter house, which contains the entrance to the Kowalski's apartment, as well as the neighbors' window to which Stanley offers his infamous anguished prayer, "Stella!" The other is devoted to the apartment, accurately sketched through concise set decoration and attention to period accessories. Heidi Curran's costumes (notably Blanche's, from a chic Brattle Street boutique) further locate the piece in time and place...