GUILFORD-On Valentine's Weekend, Guilford Center Stage will present three performances of the 1988 play, Love Letters, by A.R. Gurney, at Broad Brook Community Center.
The two-character show will be performed Friday and Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15, at 7:30 p.m; and Sunday, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m.
Love Letters was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. The play unfolds as the two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, each read the notes and letters they wrote to the other over the past fifty years.
When the play was on Broadway, say organizers, a tradition began of having various actors take turns from show to show: Carol Burnett and Alan Alda, Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy, and some sixty more were in the lineup.
In keeping with the "couples" theme, the Guilford performances will each be read by a different actor-couple. The opening night readers will be Evelyn and Don McLean, of Guilford, with Brattleboro couples featured on Saturday - Gay and James Maxwell - and the Sunday matinee: Christopher Coutant and Michael Kennedy.
A special Valentine's Day feature on Friday only will be a romantic dinner, preceding the show, at 5:30 pm, prepared by board members of Broad Brook Community Center, host venue of Guilford Center Stage. To reserve your space for dinner, please fill out this survey: bit.ly/dinnerbbcc or email: [email protected] or call: 802-451-0405. Dinner is $30 per person.
A.R. Gurney's Love Letters is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection (dramatists.com)
2025 marks the 10th anniversary season of Guilford Center Stage, which will continue this year with plays based on Agatha Christie mysteries in October.
Broad Brook Community Center is at 3940 Guilford Center Road. The building is fully ADA-accessible, with an elevator to the theater space.
General admission to the play is $15. Tickets will be available at the box office a half-hour before each performance. Advance tickets for the play may be purchased online at bpt.me/6514597. Info about both the play and the dinner may be found on the community center's site at broadbrookcommunitycenter.org/.
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