Monthly Archives: January 2019

“An extension is in order, for it is difficult to imagine a more ardent love letter than the one Calvin Trillin has composed to his late wife, Alice. A slightly longer run would do all of us a world of good, for About Alice is an efflorescence of grace in a world that very much…Read More »

“Deeply affecting.” “[Carrie] Paff is so irresistible that not falling in love with her doesn’t seem an option. Bean is equally terrific, delivering Trillin’s droll one-liners in perfect deadpan fashion and allowing just enough emotion to seep into his controlled performance.” “It works beautifully as a two-character piece, because it allows Alice to represent herself.”…Read More »

“Humorous and heartfelt, this touching tribute to Trillin’s late wife is not just the memoir of a marriage, but an intimate look into a lost culture shared only by two.” “[Jeffrey] Bean embodies an intelligent and inoffensive humorist, a man perfectly at ease chasing a sincere observation with a one-liner.” “[Carrie] Paff radiates Alice’s passion…Read More »

★★★★ “An excellent production” “Warm, often funny, altogether charming.” “The author and his muse are winningly portraying by Jeffrey Bean and Carrie Paff.” “Bean and Paff convey the sense of people who obviously love spending time with each other, and they’re enjoyable company for anyone who cares to meet them.” “Foglia’s blending of [these] elements…Read More »

Calvin Trillin discusses his play and its journey from page to stage with New Yorker editor David Remnick. Listen to the full interview on The New Yorker Radio Hour here.    

Calvin Trillin talks about his play, “About Alice” with “All of It” host Allison Stewart. Listen to the full interview on WNYC’s “All of It” here.      

“‘My first impression was that she looked more alive than anyone I’d ever seen,’ Calvin Trillin wrote in a 2006 New Yorker essay about his late wife, Alice. The piece grew into a memoir, ‘About Alice,’ which traced their relationship from that first meeting, at a 1963 party for a short-lived satirical magazine, to Alice’s death, of complications from…Read More »

“‘ABOUT ALICE’ at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (previews start on Jan. 8; opens on Jan. 20). Based on what the Sunday Book Review called a ‘slim but walloping book,’ this Theatre for a New Audience play by Calvin Trillin relates his long, fine romance with his wife, Alice, who died in 2001. Under Leonard Foglia’s direction, Jeffrey…Read More »