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Love Letters

First Preview: Aug 21, 2014
Opening Date: Aug 21, 2014
Closing Date: Dec 14, 2014
Running Time: 01:40
Love Letters

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Playing @
Lena Horne Theatre
256 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036
Love Letters is a disarmingly funny and unforgettably emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love.

Two friends, rebellious Melissa Gardner and straight-arrow Andrew Makepeace Ladd III have exchanged notes, cards and letters with each other for over 50 years. From second grade, through summer vacations, to college, and well into adulthood, they have spent a lifetime discussing their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats. But long after the letters are done, the real question remains: Have they made the right choices or is the love of their life only a letter away?

Directed by Tony Award® nominee Gregory Mosher (A View from the Bridge) and written by celebrated playwright A.R. Gurney. 


The cast will rotate as follows:


Saturday, November 8, 2014 through Thursday, December 18, 2014
 Alan Alda & Candice Bergen

Friday, December 19, 2014, through Friday, January 9, 2015
 Stacy Keach & Diana Rigg

Saturday, January 10, 2015, through Sunday, February 15, 2015
 Anjelica Huston & Martin Sheen


PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY thru THURSDAY @  7 PM
FRIDAY & SATURDAY @  8 PM
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY @  2 PM
SUNDAY @  3 PM
BroadwayPlay - ComedyPlay - Drama
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13

TDF Tickets Offers:

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Full-price tickets:

$52.00 - $127.00

Lottery & Rush

A limited number of $37 general rush tickets for each performance one hour before curtain. Tickets are limited to two per patron and will be available for purchase by cash only at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre box office.

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Reviews

  • To truly appreciate all that Love Letters has to offer, just sit there and listen. A.R. Gurney’s 1988 drama, now enjoying a vibrant revival at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, has no set, so there’s not much in the way of distraction. Paired actors—Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow are up first, in a rotation....

    ------News4 NewYork
  •  Dennehy, a two-time Tony winner, has been a steady presence on Broadway in the last few decades--and he brings a stalwart, hunched-over gravitas to Andrew, a self-serious young man who's brief youthful indiscretions naturally give way to a Rockefeller-Republican conservatism. The real surprise here is Farrow....

    -----Entertainment Weekly
  • The dying art of putting pen to paper to exchange news is being celebrated on Broadway this fall. Love Letters, A. R. Gurney’s durable epistolary play, in which two actors sit on comfortable chairs onstage and read from the lifelong correspondence between a man and a woman from the East Coast upper crust....

    -----New York Times
  • To truly appreciate all that Love Letters has to offer, just sit there and listen. A.R. Gurney’s 1988 drama, now enjoying a vibrant revival at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, has no set, so there’s not much in the way of distraction. Paired actors—Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow are up first, in a rotation....

    ------News4 NewYork

Accessibility

  • Box Office

    Outer lobby. Counter 43". Floor on slight incline.
  • Parking

    A parking lot is located directly across the street.
  • Curb Ramps

    SW corner of 47th St. & Broadway; SE corner of 47th St. & 8th Ave.
  • Restroom

    Unisex: Orchestra level.
  • Seating

    Orchestra on ground level. Mezzanine and balcony reached only by stairs.
  • Elevator/Escalator

    There are no elevators or escalators at this theatre.
  • Telephone

    A pay phone is available on the mezzanine level (up nineteen steps)
  • Entrance

    No stairs at entrance. Double doors in series: 1st set (each 28.5", heavy) into outer lobby; 2nd set (each 28.5") into inner lobby.
  • Visual Assistance

    Low vision seats available in the front of the orchestra for purchase in person or on the phone, Audio Description is also available through the GalaPro app. More information can be found here: https://www.galapro.com/
  • Water Fountain

    Mezzanine level (up nineteen steps)
  • Assisted Listening System

    Headsets for sound augmentation are available at the theatre, free of charge. Photo identification is required as a deposit, Closed Captioning is also available through the GalaPro app. For more information on GalaPro, check here: https://www.galapro.com/
  • Wheelchair Info

    Wheelchair seating available in the rear of the Orchestra section.
  • Folding Armrests

    Six (6) mobility seats with folding armrests in the orchestra, Two (2) mobility seats with folding armrests in the mezzanine, which is up 19 stairs
  • Translation

    Certain performances have captions.

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