84 Charing Cross Road @ Olympia Little Theatre (Olympia)

The play takes place over a twenty year period, beginning in 1949 when Helene Hanff first writes Marks & Co. and ends in 1969 with the death of Frank Doel, the delightfully dusty supplier of so many old volumes to Helen who has shown her gratitude through the years by sending “care packages” to the staff of Marks & Co.

This wonderful show is a dramatization of business letters between a young struggling writer in New York and an antiquarian book store in London. In a sense, these are also love letters. They are about the love of good literature. By Helene Hanff, adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans.

Tickets ($14-$18, depending on day) here.