
Imaginary Friends
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Nora Ephron’s 'Imaginary Friends' turned the stage of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre into a spectacular, intellectually fierce playground of literary history in 2002, running for an accomplished 76 performances. Conceived as a brilliant, meta-theatrical comedy-drama with music, the non-linear narrative chronicles the lifelong professional rivalry, shifting double-crosses, and ferocious legal battles that exploded between two famous American writers: Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy. Directed with sharp comedic nuance by Jack O'Brien with songs by Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia, the star-powered blockbuster production starred stage royalty Cherry Jones and Swoosie Kurtz.

