Curtains Vets David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk to Star in Love Letters

George Street Playhouse has announced plans to present A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters on the New Brunswick stage for one night only on June 3 at 8pm. Artistic director David Saint direct the production.

Tony and Emmy Award winners David Hyde Pierce (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) and Debra Monk (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) will star in the production as old friends Andrew and Melissa, childhood friends whose lifelong correspondence begins with thank-you notes and postcards but grows into shared confidences as they separately pursue marriage and careers. Pierce and Monk appeared on Broadway together in the Kander and Ebb musical Curtains.

"We loved having David here when he directed It Shoulda Been You (which premiered at the Playhouse prior to its current Broadway run)," said Saint in a statement, "and I am thrilled and grateful he is returning for this very special performance. I have long wanted to have Debra at George Street, and I am thrilled she will be joining us."

Founded in 1974, George Street Playhouse has been well represented on and off-Broadway. Recent productions include off-Broadway's The Toxic Avenger, the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof by David Auburn, which was developed at GSP during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays, and the current Broadway production of It Shoulda Been You.

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