THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, a new play written by Joan Didion based on her celebrated memoir, is now on Broadway in a strictly limited, twenty-four-week engagement, starring one of the world's greatest living actresses, the Academy Award and Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave. The play is directed by Academy Award and Tony Award nominee David Hare. In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Ms. Redgrave relives an almost unfathomably shocking period in Joan Didion's life. Capturing the compassion, humor and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage, told with raw candor and a brilliant storyteller's gift for the absurd.