The Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut tried out a new play, 'A Streetcar Named Desire', before it went to Broadway. In 1939 its playwright Tennessee Williams used a Rockefeller grant to move to which Deep South city, where he later set the play's French Quarter scenes?

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New Orleans. The years Tennessee Williams spent in New Orleans, after moving there in 1939 with a Rockefeller grant, gave 'A Streetcar Named Desire' its steamy French Quarter setting on Elysian Fields Avenue. The play was tried out at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut before it opened on Broadway.