So, you’re going to be in LA sometime during the next five weeks? Why, that’s terrific news! And what’s that you say? You’re in need of a distinctly different and entertaining theatrical experience? Really?

I think I can help.

My spouse, the lovely Jeanne Simpson, just opened “Reckless,” the decidedly off-kilter Christmas-themed play by Craig Lucas.

The thing that you are definitely going to see...

I was there on opening night, and my completely unbiased opinion is that it’s a tremendously good play and that Jeanne is superb. She plays all six of the psychologists that our heroine visits during the course of the play, and… well, I’m just so proud. *sniff*

Craig Lucas, you may remember, is the writer of “Blue Window,” “Prelude to a Kiss,” and recent Tony winner “The Light in the Piazza.” “Reckless” is one of his earliest plays, concerning a woman who is informed (with regret) by her husband on Christmas Eve that he has taken out a contract on her life, and that she’d probably ought to flee. She does…

You can get all the information you need at www.atwistedchristmas.com.

Tell your friends! Tell your family! Tell yourself. It was a great opening weekend, but as you might imagine, LA isn’t exactly the “Theater Town” that New York is. So yes, there are plenty of seats still available. On any given night, I’m likely to be in one or two of them, so make sure you let me know you’re a-comin’ and say hi…

And if you’re looking for Jeanne and the description of her characters and the program and previous pictures here and the photo in the lobby aren’t enough… why, here’s one of her new headshots:

awwwww....

Awwwwwwww. And tomorrow’s her birthday, too!

See you there, I hope. The Funny and the Pointed will return to this site soon. But today I wanted to take the time to dote. Doe dote dote dote dote…