Looks like Keris was right: The Play IS the thing. Fresh from the disaster of High Fidelity Broadway is bouncing back with another book adaptation, this one a little less unconventional. Veteran author Joan Didion has adapted her hit book The Year of Magical Thinking into a monologue, to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave. The book (and play) is about how Didion coped with the sudden death of her husband and the terminal illness of her daughter in the same few months, so it's not exactly cheery, but is meditative rather than self-pitying. (Or so I hear - I've had my copy since October but haven't cracked the cover quite yet... it looks great though!) [Via Vanity Fair].
Related: The Glass Castle on stage
