Overview

• The production opened August 7 at City Center Stage 1 in Manhattan and is scheduled to run through September 14.
• McGovern wrote and stars in the play opposite Aaron Costa Ganis as journalist Peter Evans, dramatizing their power struggle over Gardner’s memoir.
• Moritz von Stuelpnagel directs a minimalist set enhanced by Alex Basco Koch’s projections of Gardner’s photographs and film clips.
• Reviewers praised McGovern’s commanding portrayal of Gardner and Ganis’s versatility as he shifts between Evans and the star’s husbands.
• Critics noted that the play’s static pacing and confusingly interwoven flashbacks undermine its dramatic momentum.