Nov. 19th-23rd, 2025
New Wave Arts Presets
LOVE LETTERS
Written by A.R. Gurney
Directed by Gera Sandler
Starring Lev Grzhonko and Maria Atlas
A reimagined classic: Director Gera Sandler brings fresh intimacy to Love Letters, performed in Russian with English subtitles.
This new vision blends Russian-language theatre with English accessibility, presenting classic texts in a fresh, cross-cultural way. Our company focuses on intimate, human-centered work that brings audiences into close contact with timeless stories, reimagined for today.
A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters follows the lifelong correspondence between two childhood friends — Melissa and Andy — whose relationship unfolds through decades of letters filled with humor, longing, and heartbreak. Through words that are too honest to forget and too personal to destroy, the play captures how love can exist even when life keeps people apart.
This bilingual production, brings new intimacy and emotional depth to Gurney’s Pulitzer-nominated work. Blending Russian expressiveness and American restraint, it explores how language, memory, and human connection transcend borders and time.