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Left on Tenth Goes Right Down the Middle
Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher reenact Delia Ephron’s memoir, long on charm and short on dramatic tension.
The gold standard for electronic epistolary romance is probably still You’ve Got Mail, written by sisters Nora and Delia Ephron, in which Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan fall for each other in cyberspace (as you might have called it in 1998) while remaining at furious cross-purposes IRL on the Upper West Side. So in Left on Tenth, a play based on Delia Ephron’s memoir, when Julianna Margulies’s version of the author starts flirting via email with Peter Gallagher’s therapist character, you may feel a comforting return to the world and framing of Ephronian romantic comedy. During their courtship, the watercolor projections at the back of Beowulf Boritt’s set, which is dominated by a wedding-cake-like rendering of Delia’s apartment, display a split between Northern California redwoods and a city skyline straight off a New Yorker cover.
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