They met at a birthday party in 1937. He was seven. She was already, in his words, "a lost princess." What follows is fifty years of letters. Love Letters tells the story of Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner through the notes, cards and letters they write each other from childhood to old age. Thank-you notes turn into love letters. Christmas cards carry decades of longing between the lines. Two people who might have been perfect for each other keep circling one another, pulled together and pushed apart by family, marriage, ambition and everything else life throws in the way. Andy is steady, dutiful, headed for the law and eventually the Senate. Melissa is wild, funny, and allergic to convention, an artist who never quite finds her footing. On paper they tell each other everything. In person, it's never quite that simple. Gurney's Pulitzer Prize-finalist play asks a quietly devastating question: what happens to the people we love when we only ever half let them in? Performed with the two actors seated side by side, reading their letters aloud, Love Letters strips theatre back to its essentials: two voices, one long correspondence, and a lifetime of things almost said. It's been performed by everyone from Christopher Reeve to Alan Alda to Laura Linney, precisely because it needs nothing but great acting and a great script to break your heart. Funny, sharp and unbearably tender by the end, Love Letters is a love story told entirely in the words we choose to put on paper, and everything we leave out.