Shows coming to The Gladstone: Love Letters and Romantic Poetry

Love Letters
by A.R. Gurney
directed by Teri Loretto-Valentik
starring Pierre Brault and Lucy van Oldenbarneveld
January 29 to February 6, 2016 (Preview January 28)
Tuesday-Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.

Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III are childhood friends who begin a correspondence that will last 50 years. As their lives take very different paths, they share with each other their hopes and dreams, ambitions and disappointments, victories and defeats through their notes, cards and letters.

"A.R. Gurney’s deceptively simple 1988 epistolary two-hander, Love Letters, is that rare work whose emotional richness requires no embellishment in order to become a full-bodied theatrical experience." —The Hollywood Reporter

 

Romantic Poetry

by John Patrick Shanley (book and lyrics)

and Henry Krieger (music)

February 10 to 20, 2016

Tuesday-Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.

From the Oscar and Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonstruck and Doubt and the two-time Tony-nominated composer of Dreamgirls comes this crackpot musical romance. Connie is newlywed for the third time, but her exes are back in the picture and not sure they approve of the union. Carl is trying to clean up his past so he can move on with his life. Mary is climbing Frankie’s fire escape with amorous erotic intent. Fred, a dishwasher poet, travels to the suburbs to confront an old flame. Red just wants to stop driving the bus. They are all mad, and they are all sane, and they are all creating Romantic Poetry.
"It’s a story about the value of poetry, the lack of it in our lives now, and what it might be to consider bringing it back.

Tickets:

Adult: $29.49 + $0.60 ticket fee + HST = $34
Senior (65+): $25.95 + $0.60 ticket fee + HST = $30
Student/Artist*/Unwaged: $17.10 + $0.60 ticket fee + HST = $20
Preview performance: $15.33 + $0.60 ticket fee + HST = $18

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