Elizabeth McGovern To Play Ava Gardner in ‘Ava: The Secret Conversations’ At New York City Center
deadline.comElizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) will reprise her role as movie star Ava Gardner in the play Ava: The Secret Conversations at New York City Center this summer.
The play, written by McGovern, premiered in 2023 at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The New York production, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and produced by Karl Sydow, begins performances July 30, with an official opening on August 7.
Ava, which will also feature Aaron Costa Ganis as writer Peter Evans, will play a strictly limited engagement through September 13.
The synopsis: “At the height of the Golden Age of Cinema, starlet Ava Gardner sat for a series of interviews with writer Peter Evans for him to glean the juicy details about her life story, her marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and her turbulent relationship to Howard Hughes.
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