~ PVN staff report
LURAY — This weekend, Performing Arts of Luray delivers a Valentine’s Day arrangement on its newly constructed stage with three showings of “Love Letters.”
Love Letters is a play by A. R. Gurney that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards — in which over nearly 50 years, they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats — that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.
The play is a performance favorite for busy name actors, for it requires little preparation, and lines need not be memorized. It was first performed by the playwright himself with Holland Taylor at the New York Public Library, then opened in 1988 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, with Joanna Gleason and John Rubinstein.
Upcoming stagings of “Love Letters” at the Rebecca J. Graves Regional Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Luray are as follows:
- Friday, Feb. 9 — 7:30 p.m., performance only, $25 per person.
- Saturday, Feb. 10 — 6:30 p.m., dinner and performance, $60 per person.
- Sunday, Feb. 11 — 2 p.m., dessert and performance, $35 per person.
- Saturday, Feb. 17 — 6:30 p.m., dinner and performance, $60 per person
The deadline for dinner tickets was Feb. 3. The cutoff for dessert tickets is Feb. 7.
Visit https://performingartsluray.org/
for more information about Performing Arts of Luray.
To buy tickets, visit https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=pal
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