Playwright A.R. Gurney, whose works chronicled the decline of Wasp society in the late 20th century, died Tuesday at age 86. The writer, who may be best known for his oft-produced two-character play “Love Letters,” died at his home in Manhattan, his agent Jonathan Lomma told the New York Times. The Buffalo native wrote nearly 50 plays, and four were produced on Broadway. Also Read: 'Sylvia' Broadway Review: Matthew Broderick Must Choose Between Smart Wife or Sexy Talking Pooch The most recent was “Sylvia,” a 1995 comedy about a dog and her owner that was revived on the Great White Way in 2015...
- 6/14/2017
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal will star in the national tour of Love Letters, celebrated playwright A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances. Following a critically acclaimed Broadway run, Gregory Mosher's production will play an exclusive Florida engagement tonight, July 21, through Sunday, July 26, at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the stars...
- 7/21/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Carol Burnett – comedic trailblazer, actor, singer, dancer, producer and author – has been named the 52nd recipient of SAG-aftra’s highest tribute: the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Burnett will be presented the performers union’s top accolade at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 at 8 p.m. (Et), 7 p.m. (Ct), 6 p.m. (Mt) and 5 p.m. (Pt). Given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” the SAG Life Achievement Award will join Burnett’s exceptional catalog of preeminent industry and public honors, which includes multiple Emmys, a special Tony, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and both a Kennedy Center Honor and its Mark Twain Prize for Humor.
In making today’s announcement, SAG-aftra President Ken Howard said, “Carol Burnett is a creative dynamo and a comedic genius.
In making today’s announcement, SAG-aftra President Ken Howard said, “Carol Burnett is a creative dynamo and a comedic genius.
- 7/20/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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. Following a critically-acclaimed Broadway run, the national tour of Gregory Mosher's production will launch in Summer 2015, visiting Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, Dallas, Baltimore and others to be announced. Full list of cities, dates and ticket on-sale information will be announced at a later time.
- 2/28/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
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. Following a critically-acclaimed Broadway run, the national tour of Gregory Mosher's production will launch in Summer 2015, visiting Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, Dallas, Baltimore and others to be announced. Full list of cities, dates and ticket on-sale information will be announced at a later time.
- 2/25/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal will star in the upcoming national tour of Love Letters, celebrated playwright A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances. Following a critically-acclaimed Broadway run, the national tour of Gregory Mosher's production will launch in Summer 2015, visiting Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, Dallas, Baltimore and others to be announced. Full list of cities, dates and ticket on-sale information will be announced at a later time.
- 2/23/2015
- by Tori Leiber
- BroadwayWorld.com
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. Following a critically-acclaimed Broadway run, the national tour of Gregory Mosher's production will launch in Summer 2015, visiting Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, Dallas, Baltimore and others to be announced. Full list of cities, dates and ticket on-sale information will be announced at a later time.
- 2/20/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Love Letters won’t be here for Valentine’s Day. The Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's epistolary two-hander about the 50-year romantic friendship between a pair of New England blue bloods who connect only fleetingly despite their mutual passion has posted an abrupt closing notice for Dec. 14. Directed by Gregory Mosher, the production features a rotating cast of name stars and had been scheduled to run at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre through Feb. 15. Read more 'Love Letters': Theater Review Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy opened in the show on Sept. 18 to strong reviews. Carol Burnett stepped
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- 12/9/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Today, November 9, 2014, Alan Alda and Candice Bergen will begin their limited run in A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances, Love Letters, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Directed by Gregory Mosher, Alan Alda and Candice Bergen will star in Love Letters for 4 weeks only, through Friday, December 5, and their run will be followed by limited engagements of award winning stars of the stage and screen that will include Stacy Keach amp Diana Rigg and Anjelica Huston amp Martin Sheen. Diana Rigg is appearing with the support of Actors' Equity Association.
- 11/9/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Sunday, November 9, 2014, Alan Alda and Candice Bergen will begin their limited run in A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances, Love Letters, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Directed by Gregory Mosher, Alan Alda and Candice Bergen will star inLOVE Letters for 4 weeks only, through Friday, December 5, and their run will be followed by limited engagements of award winning stars of the stage and screen that will include Stacy Keach amp Diana Rigg and Anjelica Huston amp Martin Sheen. Diana Rigg is appearing with the support of Actors' Equity Association.
- 11/7/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
There are only seven more performances left to see Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy in A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances, Love Letters, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Sunday, November 9, 2014, Alan Alda and Candice Bergen will begin their limited run in the critically acclaimed production. Below, check out phtoos of the new marquee at the Brooks Atkinson...
- 11/3/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The first Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's thrilling Love Letters has announced a new general rush policy. A limited number of 37 general rush tickets will be available for each performance when the box office opens for that day's performances. Limited to 2 tickets per patron, 37 inclusive of a 2 facility fee rush tickets are available for purchase by cash or credit card at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre box office 256 West 47th Street.
- 10/15/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Stage and screen legend Carol Burnett will soon join two-time Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy in the smash hit production of A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances, Love Letters- a strictly limited four week engagement on Saturday, October 11, 2014 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street. Burnett just met the press and below, you can check out a special interview with the star is she discusses returning to Broadway.
- 10/7/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
It's Only a Play doesn't open until this Thursday, but the backstage comedy revival is already minting money for its producers at Broadway's Schoenfeld Theatre. The star-studded show—featuring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, F. Murray Abraham, Stockard Channing, and Harry Potter alum Rupert Grint—grossed an impressive $1.25 million for the week ending Oct. 5, according to figures from the Broadway League. That's a remarkable haul for a non-musical—and actually exceeds the potential earnings for the venue (thanks mostly to premium tickets sales and high demand). Another star-studded revival, Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You (starring...
- 10/6/2014
- by Thom Geier
- EW.com - PopWatch
The older the money, the stingier the meal — or so goes a persistent Wasp stereotype. Onstage, too, the rich can be unforthcoming. A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters, an epistolary play about such withholding among the upper crust, also suffers from it, partly the result of its stuntlike conception. It tells the story of stuffy but successful Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and free-spirited but doomed Melissa Gardner from the time they first encounter each other in second grade to about the age of 55, a period roughly coinciding with Earth years 1940 through 1988, when the play was first produced. I say “story,” but of necessity Love Letters is more of a précis, dropping in on representative moments in the two characters’ lives not only through the proper letters they write but via valentines, picture postcards, RSVPs, Halloween cards, thank-you notes, condolence notes, and notes passed in class. Despite the variety of...
- 9/19/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
A table, two chairs and a pair of actors reading from scripts on an otherwise bare stage sounds like one notch up from a radio play. But A.R. Gurney's deceptively simple 1988 epistolary two-hander, Love Letters, is that rare work whose emotional richness requires no embellishment in order to become a full-bodied theatrical experience. All that's needed are gifted actors capable of tracing the poignant thread of longing and regret that binds half a century of correspondence between characters whose relationship is thwarted by hesitation. And as the first couple in this production’s all-star rotating cast,
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- 9/19/2014
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The most remarkable thing about A.R. Gurney's two-hander “Love Letters,” which opened Thursday at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, is that it was first performed professionally in 1988, years before email was a common form of communication. Although the two characters, Melissa and Andrew, read aloud letters and postcards they've shared for decades, most of those missives emerge as the kind of short “dialogues” people today have via email. In “Love Letters,” there are no OMGs or WTFs, but playing Melissa, Mia Farrow does elicit a few laughs with some well-placed expletives. Aside from being prescient, Gurney is not a subtle playwright.
- 9/19/2014
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
The organizers of A.R. Gurney’s yearlong “residency” at the Signature Theatre Company did not lack for options to honor him, even with Love Letters already spoken for. (It opens on Broadway in two weeks.) No problem; there were still nearly 50 others to choose from. Among living playwrights of note, Gurney, now 83, is outrivaled for prolificacy only by Alan Ayckbourn, who is eight years younger and 30 works greater. I say “greater” advisedly. The two men share a taste, or perhaps because of their output a need, for narrative novelties and structural tricks, but Ayckbourn’s are always showier and, counterintuitively, more expressive. They are a means to an end; Gurney’s are, too often, a means to a means.Such is the case with The Wayside Motor Inn, the 1977 drama that begins his Signature season. In the titular motel, just outside Boston, five unrelated subplots play out in identical rooms.
- 9/5/2014
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
The strictly limited engagement of Carol Burnett amp Brian Dennehy in the Broadway production of Love Letters at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 256 West 47th Street will be extended for two additional performances Saturday, November 8 at 2pm and 8pm. Love Letters begins performance Saturday, September 13, at 8pm, and tickets are now on sale at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre box office for the first Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances. A limited number of tickets for theThursday, September 18, opening performance at 7pm, are available for purchase. Below, check out photos of the marquee at the Brooks Atkinson marquee as featured on the show's official Twitter page.
- 9/2/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Anna Gunn could very well win her second consecutive Emmy for Breaking Bad in about three weeks on the West Coast—but right now, she’s laying down some East Coast roots in Sex With Strangers, a new drama directed by David Schwimmer. The role is only the actress’s second major New York City stage part (she was in the supporting cast of The Rehearsal opposite Frances Conroy and Roger Rees back on Broadway in 1996), but the reviews for her and costar Billy Magnussen (soon to be seen in the long-awaited film of James Lapine/Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods; by the way,...
- 8/2/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Carol Burnett, Alan Alda, Candice Bergen, Anjelica Huston, Martin Sheen, Brian Dennehy, Mia Farrow, Stacy Keach, and Diana Rigg will comprise rotating casts of the first Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters. The production, which is directed by two-time Tony winner Gregory Mosher, is set to begin performances on September 13 for an official opening on September 18 at the Nederlander Theatre. Photos Hollywood Onstage: Bradley Cooper, Glenn Close, Matthew Broderick Headline NYC's 2014-15 Season “Gurney’s romantic, heart-breaking and somewhat autobiographical play has long been a favorite of mine,” producer Nelle Nugent said in a
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- 7/31/2014
- by Suzy Evans
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney’s seminal epistolary play has assembled a high-profile cast for a series of limited engagements this fall.
Love Letters remains one of theater’s most enduring romances of the past 25 years, having first opened in New Haven, Connecticut, in November 1988. The show paints a portrait of two friends—Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III—who have exchanged letters for over 50 years, having spent a lifetime discussing their greatest hopes and deepest disappointments.
Directed by Gregory Mosher, Love Letters will feature a rotating ensemble of players who will star in the two-person romance,...
Love Letters remains one of theater’s most enduring romances of the past 25 years, having first opened in New Haven, Connecticut, in November 1988. The show paints a portrait of two friends—Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III—who have exchanged letters for over 50 years, having spent a lifetime discussing their greatest hopes and deepest disappointments.
Directed by Gregory Mosher, Love Letters will feature a rotating ensemble of players who will star in the two-person romance,...
- 7/31/2014
- by Marc Snetiker
- EW.com - PopWatch
It’s been a staggering twenty-nine years since legendary “Charade” and “Singin’ in the Rain” director Stanley Donen last had a film on the big screen—the 1999 Laura Linney and Steven Weber-starring TV movie “Love Letters” is last his directorial credit—but at age 89 he’s considering getting back behind the camera and into the director’s chair. Showbiz 411 reports Donen has co-written a comedy with his significant other and the great director behind “Ishtar” and “The Heartbreak Kid," Elaine May, that will be produced by fellow icon Mike Nichols, no less. What’s it about? “The making of a movie and everything that goes wrong” said a source to the site. A private reading was held a few weeks ago that included Christopher Walken, Charles Grodin and Ron Rifkin. Count us in. It was in the summer of 2011 that “The Fifth Beatle,” one of two competing biopics of legendary Beatles manager Brian Epstein,...
- 12/6/2013
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor, the star of such movies as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Cleopatra,” died on Wednesday at the age of 79. She had been hospitalized with congestive heart failure..
Hers was the face that launched a thousand magazine covers—and the romantic fantasies of moviegoers worldwide. Always a great deal more—and a great deal less—than the Hollywood image first crafted by studio publicists, Elizabeth Taylor tore through life, reaching...
Actress Elizabeth Taylor, the star of such movies as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Cleopatra,” died on Wednesday at the age of 79. She had been hospitalized with congestive heart failure..
Hers was the face that launched a thousand magazine covers—and the romantic fantasies of moviegoers worldwide. Always a great deal more—and a great deal less—than the Hollywood image first crafted by studio publicists, Elizabeth Taylor tore through life, reaching...
- 3/23/2011
- by Susan Toepfer
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
This February, TV celebrities and new Hershey area residents Terry Farrell ("Becker", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Back To School") and Brian Baker (best known as "The Sprint Pcs Guy") will star in the Hershey Area Playhouse production of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters. The production will be the first collaborative project, and Playhouse debut, for this real-life husband and wife. Farrell began her career as an Elite Fashion Model, and was featured on the covers of Elle, Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Self.
- 2/20/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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