A Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, A.R Gurney's Love Letters is a play featuring a man and a woman who exchange letters, but not marriage vows, in a warm and complicated friendship lasting 50 years. Starring Janet Luby and David Elias.
Doors open at 7 PM | Play begins at 7:30 PM
Concessions available at the bar from 7-7:30pm and at intermission.
Remarkable things are happening to A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters. Actors of distinction are flocking to it as hummingbirds to nectar. Close to 60 prominent men and women, each different as a thumbprint, have played the play. In this happily diverse company: Swoosie Kurtz and Kathleen Turner, Holland Taylor and Kate Nelligan, Jason Robards and Richard Thomas, John Rubinstein and William Hurt.
About the Playwright:
A.R. (“Pete”) Gurney was born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Williams College in 1952, served as an officer in the Navy, and afterwards attended the Yale School of Drama. For many years, he taught literature at M.I.T. but moved to New York in 1982 to devote more time to writing for the theatre. He has won a fair number of awards during his career and is now a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gurney has been married to his wife Molly for over fifty years. They have four children, and eight grandchildren, and now live in Roxbury, Connecticut and New York City. His plays include The Problem, Love Letters, and Scenes from American Life.
About the Actors:
JANET LUBY* (Fonsia Dorsey) cofounded Bay Theatre in Annapolis which received three nominations for Helen Hayes Awards, winning one. While at Bay Theatre she appeared in the title role of Sylvia in A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, Doreen in Tartuffe, Becky in Becky’s New Car, Emma in Betrayal, and Annie in The Norman Conquests, among others. In DC she appeared as Murial in Apocalyptic Butterflies (Roundhouse Theatre,) and Off-Broadway in New York City, as Maryanne in Tartuffe. She studied at San Fransico’s famed ACT, and toured Europe in Barefoot in The Park. Janet is the recipient of the 2012 Annie Award for bringing theatre arts to Anne Arundel County.
DAVID ELIAS* (Weller Martin) has appeared as Greg (Sylvia), Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha), Matt Friedman (Talley’s Folly), Ira Stone (Laughter on the 23rd Floor), Allan Felix (Play It Again, Sam), William Blore (10 Little Indians), Schotter (King of the Jews: original production), Inspector Hound (The Real Inspector Hound), Frederik Egerman (A Little Night Music), Jean-Paul Sartre (Shooting Simone), and many other roles. He has worked with Compass Rose and Bay Theaters in Annapolis, and in DC, Maryland, and Virginia with Theater J, Olney Theatre, Signature Theater, Wayside Theatre, Theater at Lime Kiln, Edge of the Universe Theater, Metrostage, The American Century Theater, The Theatre Conspiracy, The Other Opera Company, and has stage managed for many more. He appeared on the classic show Homicide: Life on the Streets as a callous ER doctor, has narrated many books for The Library of Congress, and teaches Voice, Script Analysis, and Acting at The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Georgetown.
*The Actor appears through the courtesy of Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
