In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. "This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...."
Michiko Kakutani in
The New York Times called the memoir that was the basis for the play, "an indelible portrait of loss and grief ... a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage."
The first theatrical production of
The Year of Magical Thinking opened at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by David Hare.