'Tennessee on the Hudson' play celebrates Williams' work and could educate a certain 'Wheel of Fortune' contestant

“Are you kidding me? What a shame.”

That was New Yorker Ava Lee Scott’s reaction when she learned of a “Wheel of Fortune” contestant who couldn’t solve this puzzle: A STREETCAR NA—ED DESIRE.

“I don’t know how I feel about that,” Scott added.

Actually, the actress who lives in Chelsea and plays a fortune teller in “Sleep No More” knows exactly how she feels. She’d like to buy an M — as in Mortified.

Seriously, who doesn’t know “A Streetcar Named Desire”? And, for that matter, Tennessee Williams, the great American playwright who wrote it.

So if there’s one show that game-show contestant should see on Sunday, it’s “Tennessee on the Hudson.”

The show is all about Williams, and celebrates his 106th birthday on March 26.

It also marks the inaugural presentation of the Actors Theater of New York City, which Scott helped to establish.

The show includes seven of the author’s one-acts, and weaves in music and dance.

Like the playlets themselves, the characters in them aren’t as well-known as doomed Blanche from “Streetcar” or faded Amanda from “The Glass Menagerie.”

But the fictional men and women have Williams written all over them, according to Scott.

“He illuminates broken people. His characters could be your neighbors,” she said. “They’re people you think you know but really don’t.”

The array of eccentrics who will be in the spotlight includes an oddball in “Mister Paradise,” a mistress in “The Pink Bedroom,” and desperate loners in “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen.”

On the Internet, the Actors Theater of NYC describes itself on its website as an ensemble of “free thinkers.”

The troupe takes pride in casting roles without regard to race, gender or age, according to Brooklyn actor and director Salvatore Inzerillo, who helped found the new company.

He and Scott — each in their early 40s — met through Philip Seymour Hoffman. The late Oscar-winner directed Inzerillo in a number of Labyrinth Theatre productions.

Inzerillo told The News that “graciousness” was one of the best lessons he learned from Hoffman.

And grace looms large as he approaches Williams’ works. “His characters are like puzzle pieces,” he said. “Together, they tell a grander story.”

You can catch “Tennessee on the Hudson” at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday, at The Box, 189 Chrystie St. Tickets are $75 available at www.tennesseeonhudson.com.