Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora Ephron

We laugh at the same things.” Delia added, “Clothes were such an emotional trigger for us….

Which is a way of saying we have a shorthand. Inside the grill, Candice Bergen, Martha Stewart, and Harvey Fierstein mingled with Marie Brenner of *Vanity Fair,*Victor Navasky of The Nation, and the ubiquitous Roger Friedman of *The Hollywood Reporter.*Earlier I’d asked Nora about how she collaborated with Delia. It was a cool lovely night with the skyscrapers sparkling all around the 42nd Street library. After the show I walked to the party at the Bryant Park Grill with writer-director Ethan Silverman. For the first month Rosie O’Donnell, Tyne Daly, Katie Finneran, Natasha Lyonne, and Samantha Bee of The Daily Show are performing I have to say they are all absolutely wonderful. The play isn’t about sex, per se it’s about clothes and accessories and the funny sad mocking memories they conjure up at various turning points in women’s lives. The subject matter of the monologues includes women's relationships and wardrobes and at times the interaction of the two. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women.

It opened last night at off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre to a standing ovation. /rebates/2fLove-Loss-and-What-I-Wore-Nora-Ephron2fbook2f26970973&. Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. “It’s the Vagina Monologues without the vaginas” is how the Ephron sisters (writers Nora and Delia) describe their wise and witty little play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, based on the best selling 1995 memoir by Illene Beckerman. This intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron and directed by Karen Carpenter, is about to enter its second smash year at New Yorks.

Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora Ephron