‘Left On Tenth’ Broadway Review: Julianna Margulies Beguiles In Sickness And Health
deadline.comIf nothing else, Delia Ephron’s autobiographical romantic comedy Left on Tenth, opening tonight on Broadway, proves that Ephron, like her late sister Nora, can find the feel-good in even the most unlikely places.
In Left on Tenth, that would be the oncology ward of a Manhattan hospital. Based on Delia’s bestselling 2022 memoir of the same name, the title Left on Tenth refers to the Greenwich Village location of the writer’s beloved apartment where she spent many happy years with the husband who dies not long before Ephron is diagnosed with leukemia.
And not long, as it happens, before Ephron begins a mid-life romance that she never saw coming. Played by Julianna Margulies (ER, The Good Wife) with endless appeal that doesn’t shortchange the harsher aspects of a chemo-drenched recovery, the play’s Delia Ephron is still getting used to being alone following the recent death of her husband when a long-ago acquaintance emails from out of the blue after reading Ephron’s New York Times article referencing her widowhood.
Peter Rutter (a real-life character played by Grace and Frankie‘s Peter Gallagher) had actually gone on a few dates with Delia way back in college, though Delia has no recollection of their meeting.
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