Love, Loss and What I Wore

Ilene Beckerman

The Book

Ilene Beckerman’s runaway bestseller articulates something all women know: that our memories are often tied to our favorite clothes. From her Brownie uniform to her Pucci knockoff to her black strapless Rita Hayworth–style dress from the Neiman Marcus outlet store, Ilene Beckerman tells us the story of her life.

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Nora and Delia Ephron

The Play

Proving that a great show is always in fashion, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, with its starry rotating cast and compulsively entertaining subject matter, has become the toast of Off-Broadway. This intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron and directed by Karen Carpenter, is about to enter its second smash year at New York’s Westside Theatre. Produced by Daryl Roth, Love, Loss, and What I Wore is based on the best-seller by Ilene Beckerman, as well as on the recollections of the Ephrons’ friends. Like the popular book, the show uses clothing and accessories and the memories they trigger to tell funny and often poignant stories that all women can relate to, creating one of the most enduring theatergoing experiences in New York. “Enthralling! You’ll have such a good time,” raves WOR’s Joan Hamburg, while syndicated columnist Liz Smith simply states, “This is an evening that goes directly to the heart, soul and vanity of every woman, young or old.”

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Illustration by Ilene Beckerman

The Press

“Funny, compelling…Brought down the house…"
– The New York Times

“Funny, powerful, sweet and saucy! Goes directly to the heart, soul and vanity of every woman, young and old.” 
– Variety

“Witty and wise!” 
– Vanity Fair 

“Funny and poignant!” 
– Associated Press 

“A great show is always in fashion!” 
– NY1Ile

"Funny, compelling…Brought down the house…but [the play] is not a comedy: A story about black cowboy boots becomes a sad tale of being underappreciated in a relationship; a tale of two women shopping for their wedding outfits ends bittersweetly; and the recollection of a new bra is a quiet testament to a women's search for dignity while undergoing treatment for breast cancer." —NY Times. "So funny and so powerful; so dear and sweet; so remindful of our female wiles, our worries, our insecurities, our remembrances of mother, father, sisters, brothers, lovers—I think it can't miss."
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