The Lady With All The Answers to close 6 Dec 2009

The Cherry Lane Theatre has announced that David Rambo's play The Lady With All the Answers, starring Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey as the legendary advice columnist Ann Landers, will play its final performance on 6 Dec 2009. When the show closes it will have played 8 previews and 51 regular performances.

The Lady With All the Answers, which opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre on 14 Oct 2009, following previews from 7 Oct. The show, which was originally scheduled to close on 29 Nov 2009 had recently annoounced a three extension through to 20 Dec 2009.

The comedy opened to favorable reviews: A confluence of all that is good in theatre (newyorktheatreguide.com); A mildly entertaining diversion (NY Post); Offers the pleasure and affords the privilege of watching a great actor at work (Back Stage); Judith Ivey is absolutely charming (AP).

Directed by B.J. Jones, The Lady With All the Answers portrays the legendary advice columnist Ann Landers on the night that she is preparing to write the most difficult column of her long and storied career: the now-famous column in which she informed her 60 million readers that her own marriage had failed, after advising them for decades that divorce was never an appropriate solution.

For decades, newspaper columnist and American icon Ann Landers dispensed wit and wisdom to lovelorn teens, confused couples and countless others in need of advice in her enormously popular, nationally syndicated column. In The Lady With All the Answers, Landers finds herself writing a column about a new kind of heartbreak -- her own.

Drawn from Landers' life and letters, The Lady With All the Answers is a portrait of a wise, funny, no-nonsense woman who was, in fact, one of the most influential figures in America by virtue of the millions of readers who wrote to her seeking her indispensable advice and sometimes controversial opinions on matters ranging from marriage, divorce, life, death and sexuality, to the proper way to hang a roll of toilet paper in the bathroom.

Ann Landers, who was born Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer in 1918, wrote her first advice column in 1955, and the column ended with her death in 2002.

The Lady With All the Answers has set design by Neil Patel, costume design by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting design by Nicole Pearce and sound design by Kevin O'Donnell.

The production is presented Off-Broadway by Cherry Lane Theatre; Angelina Fiordellisi, Artistic Director and James King, Managing Director.