Love Letters by A.R. Gurney

Love Letters
by A.R. Gurney
Saturday, February 11th 2012- 8PM
Tickets $40 ($45 at the door) All tickets include gourmet dessert bar served throughout the night at cabaret style table seating! Menu below. Plus meet and greet the actors after the show!
A unique and imaginative theater piece which, in the words of the author, "needs no theater, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and no commitment from its two actors beyond the night of performance." The piece is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. As the actors read the letters aloud, what is created is an evocative, touching, frequently funny but always telling pair of character studies in which what is implied is as revealing and meaningful as what is actually written down.
COTTER SMITH:
New York theater credits include the Broadway production of Next Fall, which received a 2010 Tony Award nomination as Best New Play, Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter, and Lanford Wilson's Burn This. He has also appeared in the NY premieres of many new American plays over the years, often as a member of the Circle Repertory Company. He is also a founding member of the Matrix Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He also co-starred with Judd Hirsch in the National Tour of the Tony Award winning play ART.
His television and film work ranges from his debut as Robert Kennedy in the miniseries Blood Feud thirty years ago to his role as the President in X2: X-Men United. He received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the MethodFest Film Festival for his role in the independent film Lunatics, Lovers And Poets, and played the prosecutor attempting to convict the infamous Dr. Kevorkian, portrayed by Al Pacino, in Barry Levinson's Hbo film You Don't Know Jack. He has also appeared in over fifty television shows along the way, from the early days of Hill Street Blues to his recent recurring role on the new CBS series Person Of Interest.
Heidi Mueller SMITH
In 2001, Heidi and her husband Cotter founded the Cornerstone Theatre Company in Milwaukee, where they served as she served as co-Artistic Directors for seven years, producing over 30 plays, many of which she directed, including The Diary Of Anne Frank, Twelve Angry Men, Long Day's Journey Into Night and Educating Rita, to name a few favorites. Her acting credits with the company include Betrayal, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, The American Dream and Love Letters, which she first performed with her husband on Valentine's day in 2002.
She currently works for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where she directs productions with the Conservatory students, most recently George F. Walker's Escape From Happiness. She also directed Julius Caesar in the Summer Shakespeare Program for the Studio's Outreach Division with New York City high school students.
Menu prepared by Joshua Wojehowski (Culinary Institute Graduate) of First and Last Catering:
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Chocolate Mouse Jar Pies
White Chocolate Tarts with Raspberries
Mini Strawberry Cupcakes
Mini Cheesecake
Cookie Sandwiches
Cake Pops
Coffee and Tea