The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore,” currently being revived at the WPA Theatre, is Tennessee Williams’ play about a handsome young man who arrives mysteriously at an Italian villa and gets all the women there very excited. Set in 1962, it chiefly concerns Flora Goforth, an aging actress who has come to the Divina Costiera to write her memoirs. A former Follies girl who has lost six husbands, Mrs. Goforth—known as Sissy—is now dying herself, though of what is not entirely clear. (At times, such as when Mrs. Goforth has herself injected with morphine, it seems like cancer. At Continue reading

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