Guilford Center Stage opens its 2025 season with the 1988 two-character play," Love Letters", by A. R. Gurney.  The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

This epistolary play centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, lifelong friends and ... lovers?  The characters take turns, during the play, reading the cards, notes and letters they wrote to each over the past half-century.  

The Guilford performances take place, appropriately, on Valentine's weekend. An interesting, and romantic, feature of this production is that each of the three performances will be given by a different pair of actors, each of which is a real-life couple: Friday, February 14, "Love Letters" will be performed by Evelyn and Don McLean, of Guilford, frequent participants in the work of this theater group.  The Saturday, February 15th show will be performed by Gay and James Maxwell, of Brattleboro, well-known area actors.  The Sunday matinee on the 16th will feature actress Christopher Coutant and her husband, Michael Kennedy, both of whom have appeared in and directed many stage productions in the region.

"LOVE LETTERS" is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection (www.dramatyists.com).  "LOVE LETTERS" was presented at The Long Wharf Theatre, November 4, 1988 - December 11, 1998, M. Edgar Rosenbaum, Executive Director, Arvin Brown, Artistic Director.