Many community theatres were established in the mind 1950s though the oldest continually running community theatre, The Footlight Club in Jamaica Plain MA, was founded in 1877. In 1962 the Stanford Research Institute estimated there were 18,000 groups operating, of which approximately 3000 “are doing drama production at acceptable standards, and [of these] perhaps 200 groups are producing drama at more or less professional standards, occasionally work of very high quality.” --Dr. Twink Lynch Would Streetcar be a Popular Choice?It doesn’t seem to have been a staple like Arsenic and Old Lace, You Can’t Take It With You, The Mousetrap, or musicals. Community theatres seem to have favored Miller over Williams, and if they did Williams it tended to be The Glass Menagerie. I think we can infer that Streetcar would have been a humorously ambitious and risqué choice.
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