Love Letters is A.R. Gurney’s tender, witty, and heartbreaking portrait of a lifelong correspondence between two friends whose unspoken love unfolds across decades, performed as an intimate reading that lets the words speak for themselves. Read by beloved Des Moines news icons Mollie and Kevin Cooney!

A Local Revival of The Ultimate Romance Love Letters

In an age of instant messaging, the long lost artform of penmanship and letter-writing may seem archaic. But in celebrated American playwright A.R. Gurney's beloved classic Love Letters, the old-fashioned romance of writing is revived. Warm your heart with this imaginative retelling, coming to a stage near you.

A tender, tragi-comic and bittersweet examination of love's first and second chances, Love Letters is the story of Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Lad III, two childhood friends whose lives take very different paths. Despite leading separate lives, they remain in contact through letters, unable to let go of the love that remains.