The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Tennessee Williams’s intense dramatic masterpiece 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore' completed a highly publicized original Broadway premiere run at the Morosco Theatre in 1963 (and later at the Brooks Atkinson in 1964), remaining a highly prized rarity for students of Southern Gothic literature. The claustrophobic drawing-room tragedy unfolds inside an opulent, isolated clifftop villa over the Mediterranean Sea in Italy, tracking Flora Goforth, a wealthy, dying, and hyper-neurotic old high-society diva who spends her final days frantically dictating her memoirs, collapsed into crisis by a handsome young poet. Directed by Tony Richardson, the production starred Hermione Baddeley.