In 1988, the Hollywood star Ava Gardner asked a writer named Peter Evans to ghostwrite her memoirs. The two had never met, but before long, Gardner was calling Evans in the middle of the night, ...

Elizabeth McGovern as Ava Gardner in AVA: The Secret Conversations. Photo: Jeff Lorch It must be noted that Aaron Costa Ganis, who plays all of the men in the play, is colorful and versatile, even ...

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In “Ava: The Secret Conversations,” Elizabeth McGovern amusingly drops the genteel, demure demeanor she has deployed to such successful effect in recent years as Lady Cora Crawley in the “Downton ...

Elizabeth McGovern in Ava: The Secret Conversations Credit: Jeff Lorch Unlike solo biographical shows, where the audience is the implied interlocutor/confessor for the life events as they unfold as ...

Like Ava Gardner, the subject of the play she’s written and stars in, Elizabeth McGovern came to Hollywood at a young age, winning her breakout role in Robert Redford’s 1980 film version of Ordinary ...

Fans of Elizabeth McGovern who find their way to the Studebaker Theater merely out of a desire to see a star of the TV and movie franchise “Downton Abbey,” live and in person in Chicago, likely will ...

Devo meets with Elizabeth McGovern and Aaron Costa Ganis to discuss the creative process behind transforming Ava Gardner’s ...

The “Downton Abbey” actress is picking up the pen and writing the roles she wants to play. First up: the sultry star from Hollywood’s Golden era. In the late 1980s, a larger-than-life movie star from ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" is a hit at the Studebaker Theater. It's about a screen legend whose real life was as thrilling as the movies she starred in. Elizabeth McGovern plays ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Ava: The Secret Conversations" just opened to rave reviews, starring Elizabeth McGovern at the Studebaker Theater. The Evanston native plays one of the most compelling women to ever ...