Al and Sondra Markim have performed in the theater and on TV, and most recently at UCSD in La Jolla, CA, where they spend winters away from their home in Piermont Landing. "LOVE LETTERS" was described by Mel Gussow of the New York Times when it opened at the Promenade Theater in New York in 1989 as "an evocative epistolary account of two charter members of the privileged set. In less than two hours," he reported, "we see Andrew Makepeace Ladd 3d and Melissa Gardner over a period of 50 years, as the author carries them from second grade through the trauma of adulthood, marriage, divorce and middle age. ....It is, in performance, a testimony to the actor's art, a theatrical exercise in which actors, far more than in less schematic surroundings, have to draw upon their own intuitive resources.... 'Love Letters" is unadorned theater, what the English would describe as a platform piece."
