Notes from Annie's Garden: Working with playwright A.R. Gurney
By Annie KeefeAssociate ArtistI finally met A.R. (Pete) Gurney in 2000 when he graciously waived the royalties on his beautiful play LOVE LETTERS so that the newly minted board of the Playhouse could do one of its first fundraisers, with Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman playing Melissa Gardner & Andrew Makepeace Ladd, III. It was early days, and all hands on deck. I was busy driving around Fairfield looking for a…