By Joseph Berger

When he has heard Stanley Kowaiski bellow "Stella!" over the years in assorted productions of "A
Streetcar Named Desire," Tom Oppenheim has wondered whether Tennessee Williams chose the name as an insider's bouquet to Mr. Oppenheim's grandmother Stella Adler, the teacher who instructed the definitive Stanley, Marlon Brando, in her version of the Method.

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