A Lustre Lady Becomes A Playwright and Opens Off-Broadway.

By Karen and Erica

Elizabeth Coplan (a Lustre member), is making her Off-Broadway playwriting debut this month with the play ‘Til Death. The play is a dark comedy about death and choices. In ‘Til Death, one mother’s choice unveils a family’s long-buried secrets. As her life-altering decision sends shockwaves through her loving-but-turbulent family, they all must confront their past, reconcile the present, and pick up the missing pieces in the process.

‘Til Death stars two-time Tony Award Winner Judy Kaye (Nice Work If You Can Get It), Tony Award nominee Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll & Hyde), Michael Lee Brown (Dear Evan Hansen), Whitney Morse (The Violet Sisters), Dominick Laruffa Jr. (The Irishman), and Amy Hargreaves (Homeland).

Coplan, who is nearly 70, and lives in Seattle, has been fascinated and inspired by theater all of her life, but never imagined that now, after a forty year career in marketing, she would become an acclaimed playwright launching her first Off-Broadway play, with a star-studded cast. A play about death, of all things. Well, actually about life, but written after her own personal losses. You can hear her talk about her amazing story in an interview with Erica and Karen in the video below.

The strictly limited engagement runs November 19 to December 23. Previews begin on November 24 at the Abingdon Theater on Theatre Row, Theatre 5, 410 West 42nd Street. Performances run Tuesdays – Fridays at 7pm, Saturdays at 2pm and 8pm, and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets and additional info are available here.

Karen and Erica—and Elizabeth—will be there on December 14. Come say hello if you are there too! And let’s all raise a toast to a Lustre Lady’s amazing journey, and timely success.