Love Letters (play)
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Love Letters is a play written by A. R. Gurney. The cast consists of two actors. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, the actors sit side by side at tables, and read the letters they have written to each other through the long years of their lives. It is only at the end that they both know that they were really love letters all the time. The play is popular with actors, since it requires very little rehearsal, and no learning of lines.
It was first performed at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut in 1988. Melissa Gardner was played by Joanna Gleason and Andrew Makepiece Ladd III by John Rubinstein.
It opened off-Broadway in New York City early in 1989. Melissa was played by Kathleen Turner and Andrew again by John Rubinstein. In the fall of 1989 the show went to the Edison Theatre on Broadway where it played for three months. It opened with Colleen Dewhurst as Melissa and Jason Robards as Andrew. Other paired actors seen in the Broadway production were:
- Lynn Redgrave and John Clark
- Stockard Channing and John Rubinstein
- Jane Curtin and Edward Hermann
- Kate Nelligan and David Dukes also Treat Williams
- Polly Bergen and Robert Vaughan
- Timothy Hutton and Elizabeth McGovern
- Swoosie Kurtz and Richard Thomas
- Elaine Stritch and Cliff Robertson
- Nancy Marchand and Fritz Weaver
- Robert Foxworth and Elizabeth Montgomery
Many actors have performed elsewhere in the play over the years, among them have been:
- Blythe Danner
- George Segal
- Victor Garber
- Joan Van Ark
- William Hurt
- Christopher Reeve
- Marsha Mason
- Frances Sternhagen
- Charlton Heston
- Stephanie Beacham
- Victoria Principal
- Michael Learned
- Jeanne Cooper
- Lawrence Pressman
- Brooke Shields
- Timothy Dalton
- Whoopie Goldberg
- Stephanie Zimbalist
- Larry Hagman
- Linda Gray
==External Links==
Love Lettters at the Internet Broadway Database
