Carol Burnett Joins Broadway's LOVE LETTERS This Weekend

There are only five more performances to see Mia Farrow in her critically-acclaimed turn as Melissa Gardner in the smash hit production of A.R. Gurney's enduring romance about first loves and second chances, Love Letters. Stage and screen legend Carol Burnett will join two-time Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy in a strictly limited four week engagement on Saturday, October 11, 2014 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street).

LOVE LETTERS opened to rave reviews on Thursday, September 18, 2014, with the New York Times exclaiming ""The dying art of putting pen to paper to exchange news is being celebrated on Broadway," with The Hollywood Reporter adding, ""LOVE LETTERS is that rare work whose emotional richness requires no embellishment in order to become a full-bodied theatrical experience. All that's needed are gifted actors."

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, A.R. Gurney's Love Letters became an instant smash hit that was performed all over the country. The universality of the piece quickly led to the play being translated into 24 languages. In the last 26 years, productions of Love Letters have played in over 40 countries around the world.

Directed by Gregory Mosher, Love Letters currently stars Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow in a strictly limited engagement. The Dennehy/Farrow cast of Love Letters will be followed by limited engagements of casts that will include Carol Burnett & Brian Dennehy, Alan Alda & Candice Bergen, Stacy Keach & Diana Rigg, and Anjelica Huston & Martin Sheen. Diana Rigg is appearing with the support of Actors' Equity Association. Love Letters is produced by Nelle Nugent, Barbara Broccoli, Frederick Zollo, Olympus Theatricals, Michael G. Wilson, Lou Spisto, Colleen Camp, Postmark Entertainment Group, Judith Ann Abrams/Pat Flicker Addiss and Kenneth Teaton in association with Jon Bierman, Tim Degraye, Daniel Frishwasser, Elliott Masie, Mai Nguyen and Scott Lane/Joseph Sirola.

CAST SCHEDULE

Saturday, September 13, 2014, through Friday, October 10, 2014
Brian Dennehy & Mia Farrow

Saturday, October 11, 2014, through Saturday, November 8, 2014
Carol Burnett & Brian Dennehy

Sunday, November 9, 2014 through Friday, December 5, 2014
Alan Alda & Candice Bergen

Saturday, December 6, 2014, through Friday, January 9, 2015
Stacy Keach & Diana Rigg

Saturday, January 10, 2015, through Sunday, February 15, 2015
Anjelica Huston & Martin Sheen

LOVE LETTERS has scenic design by two-time Tony Award winner John Lee Beatty, costume design by Tony Award winner Jane Greenwood, lighting design by Tony Award winner Peter Kaczorowski and casting by Telsey + Company (William Cantler, CSA and Andrew Femenella, CSA).

LOVE LETTERS is a disarmingly funny and unforgettably emotional portrait about the powerful connection of love. Two friends, rebellious Melissa Gardner and straight-arrow Andrew Makepeace Ladd III have exchanged notes, cards and letters with each other for over 50 years. From second grade, through summer vacations, to college, and well into adulthood, they have spent a lifetime discussing their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, and victories and defeats. But long after the letters are done, the real question remains: Have they made the right choices or is the love of their life only a letter away?