Simply timeless. 💘 When Rosalind discovers Orlando's love letters in our 1983 production of As You Like It! We've extended our 50% discount to Stratfest@Home, where you can watch this archival gem along wi…

GRACE PERVADES        Theatre Royal Bath     Theatre is fond of sending itself love letters, albeit – from Sheridan’s The Critic to Frayn’s  Noises Off – often prudently laced with affectionate m…

The intimate correspondence of a Manchester Guardian journalist and his wife is the basis for a theatre piece marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day During a house move, a cardboard box belonging to my husband …

Ngozi Anyanwu Energizes Paired Monologues with Music, Dance by Zack Rogow Theater and movies about love stories almost always show us the lead-up to a romance. It’s rare that we hear about the mechanics of an…

The breakup play “The Last of the Love Letters” by Ngozi Anyanwu is indulgent, repetitive and trite. 

Ngozi Anyanwu's play at Z Below was written in a fervor after the actor prodded her with a playbill and a lack of 'insane' roles.

Arcola theatre, LondonMadeleine Brettingham’s play aims to unpick male friendships and send up criminal groupies, but it treats the subject of mental health too lightly to make it meaningful It starts off wit…

For the 41-year-old brothers, returning to their flat is bittersweet. Their apartment was more than just a home. It was once a stage, a space where they performed original theatre plays away from the watchful e…

Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . I only got to Ken Ludwig’s 2019 play Dear Jack, Dear Louise last night and since it closes this weekend please take my word that it’s well worth rushing to see. It’s …

The dance humor in Christopher Gattelli’s shows, like “Schmigadoon!” and “Death Becomes Her,” is underpinned by affection for musical theater and its excesses.

Steven Suskin has been reviewing theater and music since 1999 for Variety, Playbill, the Huffington Post, and elsewhere. He has written 17 books ...

By: Paulanne Simmons January 28, 2025: There’s nothing particularly new about a play based on correspondence between two friends (one can’t help thinking of A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters}. But Michael G…

★★★★☆ Playwright Ken Ludwig finds literary delight in the family attic The post Dear Jack, Dear Louise: WWII Love Letters, with Wit and Charm appeared first on New York Stage Review.

There’s a cozy ease that permeates “All In,” in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer Simon Rich. It’s …

He guided productions of ‘Love Letters’ and ‘Sylvia’ and ran the defunct Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills with his late wife, Tony winner Joan Stein. 

Brooke Shields & John Slattery take the stage for the FINAL WEEK of LOVE LETTERS . https://assets.playbill.com/editorial/_verticalListLarge/IMG_5009.

Ken Coughlin’s New Plays Are Love Letters to Two Legendary Pastimes The award-winning Ken Coughlin has turned his attention to two of the most cherished pursuits of modern times: Baseball and Music. Hang Up Y…

The Roommate, a new play by Jen Silverman, begins its Broadway run at the Booth Theatre on August 29 ahead of a September 12 opening. Mia Farrow and three-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone costar in the Broa…

Minghella theatre, ReadingViewers may be well versed on the Horizon debacle, but this play offers a fresh perspective by focusing on one victim’s story A stage set of a small Post Office branch might once hav…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal will star in an upcoming national tour of LOVE LETTERS, celebrated playwright A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances. Follo…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy began performances in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre this past weekend on Saturday, September 13 and opened last night. Broa…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy star in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, which opened last week. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there for all of the festi…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy began performances in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre this past weekend on Saturday, September 13 and opens tonight. Below, B…

Patti LuPone, Mia Farrow, Tom Holland. By: David Sheward April 13, 2024: According to the New York Post, Tony winner Patti PuPone and Mia Farrow will return to Broadway in a two-person play called The Roomm…

"O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me to t'untie" TWELFTH NIGHT April 26 - October 26 | Festival Theatre Opening Night Performance: May 27 In Shakespeare's celebrated romantic …

As Playbill.com states, “The play's two characters are a man and a woman who exchange letters, but not marriage vows, in a warm and complicated ...

Steppenwolf is the most recognizable name in Chicago theater. Since 2016 the venerable institution has become an incubator of multidisciplinary and experimental performance as well, presented in the intimate St…

Woolwich Works, London On a catwalk-like stage, the ambitious New Movement Collective celebrate Stravinsky’s peasant wedding with a twist, adding fresh musical compositions to ramp up the atmosphere A major h…

Hi Friends! I've been doing these summaries for a long time but also they start in 2007 when I was at Juilliard and exciting things were already happening.  I don't have a year in review about 2000 when I w…

This past Monday at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the stars of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch celebrated the 75th weddin…

Also, check out photos of McCollum as LGBTQ+ trailblazer Kenneth "Mr. Madam" Marlowe.

The post Love Letters appeared first on Australian Arts Review.

Sofia Ghassaei, a 19-year-old Seattle playwright and poet who is an autistic nonspeaker, wrote "Love Letters," streaming on YouTube and screening soon at Seattle Film Institute.

The drama following two friends exchanging letters over time is back for a limited engagement after a sold-out run last spring.

In celebration of National Recovery Month (September), the 'West Wing' stars will perform A.R. Gurney's unique two-character play three times only.

Encores Supersizes Season, COVID Hits ‘Sweeney Todd,’ Martin Sheen to Lead ‘Love Letters’ in D.C. “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of …

The West Wing co-stars will reunite for the production in celebration of Recovery Month.

Don't miss Martin Sheen and Melissa Fitzgerald in the heartwarming play LOVE LETTERS at the Kennedy Center. Catch this limited engagement for a memorable theater experience.

Legendary Lyricist Tom Jones Dies, Start-Studded ‘Love Letters’ to Return, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Court Ruling “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre…

The drama following two friends exchanging letters over time had a sold-out run last spring.

Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Director) announced today that they will present an encore run of Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O…

An encore run of Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly (Endgame), following sold-out performances this past spring. The encore run will take place this fall, featuring five performances wi…

Irish Repertory Theatre will present an encore run of Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, following sold-out performances this past spring. The encore run will take place this fall, fea…

Sealed with a kiss: for your reading pleasure, we present six public displays of affection, from our archives. Laura Paredes as Laura in Trenque Lauquen. Courtesy Cinema Guild. The Merriam-Webster thesaurus l…

Sheldon Harnick (1924–2023). Photo by Carlo Allegri for the Washington Post.June 24, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler News that Sheldon Harnick left us yesterday at age ninety-nine swept thr…

Perfromances are underway for Irish Repertory Theatre's Love Letters by A.R. Gurney, directed by Ciarán O'Reilly (Endgame), starring Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and Tony Award winner Laura Benanti.

The Tony winners currently star in the A.R. Gurney play Off-Broadway.

★★★★☆ Matthew Broderick, Laura Benanti, directed by Ciarán O'Reilly, read well for two shortish acts The post Love Letters: A. R. Gurney’s Moving Portrait of Two Almost Lovers appeared first on New…

Playing Off-Broadway at Irish Repertory Theatre, the two-hander will only have 12 performances.

Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theatre has added performances of the two-hander.

Alfred Lunt as Anton Schill and Lynn Fontanne as Claire Zachanassian in “The Visit” (1958). Photo by Vandamm.May 5, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler On this date sixty-five years ago this…

Friends come and go. Some stay throughout our lives while others, however significant for a time, fade into the haze of memory yet always linger within us. In “Summer, 1976,” the new Broadway play by David …

Pfeiffer to Play Ophelia in ‘Hamlet’; Benanti, Broderick to Lead ‘Love Letters’; McNally’s Not for Mazzie “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre hea…

The theatre has announced its The Letters Series will also star Tony nominee Melissa Errico and David Staller.

The evening featuring the Taxi co-stars will benefit Theatre Aspen's 2023 artists.

YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT: OLDER BETTER LETTERS January 11 - January 15, 2023 Written and Performed by Rachel Mars Learn more: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2223/utr-2023/your-sexts-are-shit/ Award-w…

Hi everyone!  Happy New Year or soon to be New Year!  Here is the photo we take in front of my parents' tree every year. This year we went camping twice, visited VA and Cape Cod both twice.  I was in Los …

In 'Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family' and 'The Gospel Woman' this journalist-turned-playwright recovers overlooked histories---and that work started at home.

Clyde's, Company and SIX win four awards each --- Talk about spreading the love! No one production dominated the 2022 Drama Desk Awards, which honor shows on Broadway and beyond in NYC. The Broadway productions…

Theatre's return season has been triumphant and rocky. Because of COVID-19, schedules are constantly changing, not just for individual productions but for theatre awards, too. Traditionally, the Drama Desk nomi…

What begins as frivolous note sharing between childhood friends, unfolds into a lifelong love affair via the art of letter

photo by Gary Leonard I happened to have recently been going through old copies of Back Stage West, the actor's trade I ran from 1993 to 2003. This far-ranging and fascinating piece was in its very first free…

It is no knock on A. R. Gurney’s much-admired “Love Letters” to note that “Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise” takes Gurney’s premise and runs with it…literally. Gurney has a man and a woman se…

World Premiere Play The Last of the Love Letters by Ngozi Anyanwu directed by Patricia McGregor with Ngozi Anyanwu, Xavier Scott Evans & Daniel J. Watts two people contemplate the thing they love the most and …

Watch playwright Ngozi Anyanwu as she discusses with Geoffrey Jackson (PEOPLMVR) and Rob Fields (NIB) the themes of Black mental health and healing as presented in THE LAST OF THE LOVE LETTERS in a conversation…

By: David Sheward September 21, 2021: At first, Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Last of the Love Letters seems like a conventional breakup story. The audience enters the Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theate…

We’re transported to Ms. Chen’s boldly oppressive spacious prison set with bars, an austere bed, a urinal, a tank to vomit in, and a retractable metal staircase for a menacing authority figure to descend fr…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere discuss Sondheim’s appearance on Colbert, announcing his new show, New York Theatre Workshop’s production of Sanctuary City, the West Side Story movie t…

The world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu’s play opened with the Atlantic Theater Company September 13.

Just last night, Atlantic Theater Company celebrated opening night of the World Premiere play The Last of the Love Letters. The Last of the Love Letters is written by and features Ngozi Anyanwu and is directed …

The play, written by and starring Ngozi Anyanwu, opened September 13 at Atlantic Theater Company.

If you think Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play is a straightforward romance, think again.

Ngozi Anyanwu kicks off a new era at the Atlantic Theater with a work of inscrutable madness.

Atlantic Theater Company’s world-premiere production of The Last of the Love Letters, written by Ngozi Anyanwu, co-starring the award-winning playwright and Tony Award nominee Daniel J. Watts (Tina: The Tina …

★★★★☆ Ngozi Anyanwu's trenchant relationships probe, with Daniel J. Watts and the author giving indelible performances The post The Last of the Love Letters: A Stunning Look at Love’s Ups and Downs …

“Do you remember those things we used to go to? They were in expensive a** buildings? What were they called?” Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play The Last of the Love Letters, directed by Patricia McGregor at Atlan…