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ennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, a rarely seen title, gets an Off-Broadway revival starting Jan. 7. Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis plays Flora Goforth, a widow penning her memoirs.
Michael Wilson (The Orphans' Home Cycle) directs the Roundabout Theatre Company staging at its Off-Broadway home at the Laura Pels Theatre. Performances play to April 3. This production (with a somewhat different cast) premiered in May 2008 at Hartford Stage in Connecticut. It was the culmination of Wilson's ten-year project on the work of Tennessee Williams.
Opening night is Jan. 30. Wilson's New York cast includes Curtis Billings (as Giulio), Elisa Bocanegra (as Simonetta), Olympia Dukakis (as Flora Goforth), Edward Hibbert (as Witch of Capri), Maggie Lacey (as Frances Black) and Darren Pettie (as Christopher Flanders). Hibbert steps into the female role of the witch directly from starring in Roundabout's revival of Mrs. Warren's Profession.
Here's how Roundabout characterizes the play: "In this haunting Tennessee Williams drama, Olympia Dukakis stars as Flora Goforth, a wealthy American widow. In her picturesque Italian mountaintop home, Flora has detached from the world in order to write her memoirs. When a handsome and mysterious young visitor arrives without warning to keep Flora company in her final hours, this dreamlike play blossoms into a fascinating meditation on life and death."
Michael Wilson (The Orphans' Home Cycle) directs the Roundabout Theatre Company staging at its Off-Broadway home at the Laura Pels Theatre. Performances play to April 3. This production (with a somewhat different cast) premiered in May 2008 at Hartford Stage in Connecticut. It was the culmination of Wilson's ten-year project on the work of Tennessee Williams.
Opening night is Jan. 30. Wilson's New York cast includes Curtis Billings (as Giulio), Elisa Bocanegra (as Simonetta), Olympia Dukakis (as Flora Goforth), Edward Hibbert (as Witch of Capri), Maggie Lacey (as Frances Black) and Darren Pettie (as Christopher Flanders). Hibbert steps into the female role of the witch directly from starring in Roundabout's revival of Mrs. Warren's Profession.
Here's how Roundabout characterizes the play: "In this haunting Tennessee Williams drama, Olympia Dukakis stars as Flora Goforth, a wealthy American widow. In her picturesque Italian mountaintop home, Flora has detached from the world in order to write her memoirs. When a handsome and mysterious young visitor arrives without warning to keep Flora company in her final hours, this dreamlike play blossoms into a fascinating meditation on life and death."
