I started feeling complicit in the exploitation of Ava Gardner by even attending "Ava: The Secret Conversations," a play that Elizabeth McGovern has adapted from a book of the same name by celebrity journalist Peter Evans. This is not, obviously, the reaction McGovern intends.  I assumed the actress, best known recently as the upright Countess...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:04PM on August 13, 2025