PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, June 1-7: Mark Rylance to Bring Gender-Bending Shakespeare to NYC, Far From Heaven Opens
Today's young generation is too fresh to this planet to know a time when you couldn't escape the title "The Bridges of Madison County." Published in 1992 by an unknown author named Robert James Waller, the story about a brief, four-day love affair between a National Geographic photographer and an Italian-American housewife in 1965 Iowa became an unexpected runaway smash.