The Year of Magical Thinking Tickets

What happens when your universe becomes unmoored? The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion's award-winning autobiographical examination of grief, arrives on Broadway this spring in one of the season's most anticipated events. Academy Award- and Tony-winner Vanessa Redgrave will portray the writer in Didion's stage adaptation of her exhilarating memoir, directed by Oscar-nominated playwright David Hare (The Hours). Redgrave re-lives the unimaginable night when, as Didion's only child lay in a coma, her husband of 40 years, writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a massive coronary as they sat down to dinner in their New York apartment. In response, Didion found a safe harbor in "magical thinking," stunned that "life changes in the instant" and feeling an irrational certainty that her husband "will come back and need his shoes." Her story is both a love letter to her daughter, who died just before the book was published in 2005, and a tribute to an extraordinary marriage. The combination of Didion, Redgrave, Hare and Tony-winning designer Bob Crowley (The History Boys) is sure to produce theatrical magic.

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Tickets at Booth Theatre

The Booth Theatre opened in 1913 and was designed by Henry B. Herts as a companion to The Shubert Theatre. It was named after an earlier theater which was named for actor Edwin Booth, who happened to be the brother of John Wilkes Booth.

This intimate auditorium was intended for small dramatic plays or one-man shows. It had one major restoration in 1979 and remains part of the Shubert Organization.

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222 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036

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About The Year of Magical Thinking on Broadway

Venue

Booth Theatre

222 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036

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Opening

March 29, 2007

Story for The Year of Magical Thinking

Academy and Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave returns to the Broadway stage in Joan Didion’s searing and achingly beautiful new play The Year of Magical Thinking, from Didion’s best-selling memoir. Directed by Oscar nominee David Hare (The Hours), this heart-rending and ultimately inspiring new work is already the most anticipated of the spring season. Redgrave re-lives that unimaginable night in Didion’s life when her husband of 40 years, fellow writer John Gregory Dunne, died suddenly of a massive coronary as they sat down to dinner in their New York apartment. With raw candor and a storyteller’s gift for the absurd, Redgrave tells Didion’s story of unfathomable grief as lived in a thousand details. An astonishing performance that captures the compassion, humor and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world moves suddenly from ordinary to catastrophic.