The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore
Erik Haagensen
January 30, 2011: Tennessee Williams' 1962 play "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," an unruly, extravagant, almost surreal meditation on mortality, failed on Broadway in two different productions a year apart, bombed again in 1968 on screen under the title "Boom!," and is regarded as the turning point in Williams' career: He never again had a commercial success. I've always considered it a better play than its reputation, but I never thought it could work as well as it does in Michael Wilson's mesmerizing production for Roundabout Theatre Company. If any production can undo the decades of unwarranted critical scorn heaped on "Milk Train," this is the one.
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