“Life is the totality of happy times and sad times and good times and bad times,” said Peter Gallagher. “And you can embrace it all because it eventually will allow you to inhabit a kind of richness and a delight you couldn’t have imagined when you were younger.”
Gallagher is currently starring in the new play “Left on Tenth,” adapted from Delia Ephron’s memoir of the same name. Gallagher takes on the role of Ephron’s second love, also named Peter, with whom she fell in love when she was 72 years old. The play is about second chances — in more ways than one. “Right after falling in love, I got a fatal disease,” Ephron told Broadway News. But thankfully she lived to tell the tale — and turn it into a Broadway play.
In the latest episode of Broadway News’ audio series “Broadway Press Day with Ruthie Fierberg,” Fierberg gets personal with playwright Delia Ephron, producer Daryl Roth and principal players Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher. Learn about what to expect from the new “traumedy,” what Ephron said is the key to romantic comedy and why Gallagher feels like this is the Broadway of the 1970s.
“Broadway Press Day” takes listeners inside the press junkets for new productions on the Main Stem. Ruthie Fierberg, executive editor of Broadway News, produces, edits and hosts. Steve Rappaport mixes and masters.
Listen to the trailer here.
Listen to the new episode below.
