About the Show

13th Street Repertory Company presents a new family drama set in the Bronx during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

'The Milkman’s Sister' takes place inside a Bronx tenement in October 1962, when nuclear annihilation was seemingly just hours away. Despite a historic last-minute reprieve from atomic disaster, the residents are still devastated. The nerve-wracking countdown to their impending deaths unleashes an explosion of heroism, cowardice, and delusion for an overweight housewife, an unemployed milkman, an angry supervisor of hospital linen, and their neighbors.

Critic Reviews (1)

"As destruction comes to seem more certain, the characters aim their worries at each other, revealing long-boiling resentments, particularly the strain and abuse that defines the central marriage. Director Joe Battista and the committed cast let the drama run excitingly wild — by the end, the floor is coated in the spaghetti and milk from a dinner gone wrong, the remnants of a family in pieces but still pushing on."
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