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The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 15, 2008
Closed Jun 15, 2008

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis returns in the tenth installment of the Tennessee Williams Marathon as the aging beauty queen and society maven Flora Goforth, whose final days dictating her memoirs in her villa on the southern coast of Italy are disrupted by the mysterious arrival of a beautiful young poet. Does he offer one last chance for love and salvation, or is he the Angel of Death?

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Hartford Stage
50 Church St
Hartford, CT 06103


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, a poorly received midlife foray by Tennessee Williams, is populated by a convocation of by-now familiar character Williams' types: a vain harpy desperate to sustain the illusion of desirability, a reproving spinster (or, in this case, a young widow who might as well be one), an itinerant sinner/saint. The show fizzled twice on Broadway (the second attempt despite a star roster headed by Tallulah Bankhead and Tab Hunter, of all people), but it might not have -- had Hartford Stage artistic director Michael Wilson been at the helm. His imaginative, fully fleshed-out staging makes this debate between death and the life force sing, thanks in large part to[...]


Reviewed by Sandy MacDonald on May 26, 2008

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