Ava: The Secret Conversations
Dates
Jul 29 – Sep 13, 2025
Venue
Stage I
On Sale Dates
Member Presale Tue Apr 1
Public Onsale Tue Apr 22
Run Time
Approximately 90 minutes with no intermission
Warnings
Herbal cigarette smoke, flashes of light
Content
This production contains profanity and discussions of sex and sexual assault. Recommended for 12+
About
Elizabeth McGovern casts a spell as a classic Hollywood femme fatale.
Mesmerizing...Two electric actors — McGovern and Ganis are powerful forces...More interesting than an Oscar-winning biopic.
Entrancing and hypnotic...McGovern embodies Ava Gardner in a gutsy exploration and she does so with fire.
Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated actor Elizabeth McGovern stars as Hollywood's original femme fatale, Ava Gardner, in a critically acclaimed new play lauded by Entertainment Weekly as “mesmerizing and electric!”
The Golden Age of Cinema’s Ava Gardner sat for a series of real-life interviews with writer Peter Evans in an attempt to glean the juicy details about her life story, her marriages to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw, and Frank Sinatra, and her turbulent relationship to Howard Hughes. Initially barred from publication, Evans’s stories of a bygone era were published twenty-five years later with permission from Gardener’s estate and is now reimagined on stage played by “two powerful forces”: Elizabeth McGovern as Ava and Aaron Costa Ganis as Peter.
Cast & Credits
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Elizabeth McGovern and Aaron Costa Ganis in
Ava: The Secret Conversations
Written by Elizabeth McGovern
Based on the book The Secret Conversations by Peter Evans & Ava Gardner
Directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
Producer Karl Sydow
Scenic Designer David Meyer
Costume Designer Toni-Leslie James
Lighting Designer Amith Chandrashaker
Sound Designer Cricket S Myers
Projection Designer Alex Basco Koch
Wig Designer Matthew Armentrout
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