And Mr. Foote has cast the play with care and skill, beginning with Hallie Foote, his daughter and a frequent leading lady in his own plays.
She agrees to go on a date set up by her grandchild-obsessed mother (played by Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes's widow and frequent leading lady and Ms. Cassavetes's mom), but finds that her prospective suitor (Josh Hamilton, in a note-perfect cameo) is still smitten with his ex-girlfriend.
It's really a night to feast one's eyes On the costumes: the taste and the frequent lack Of, ladies in dresses with only a back.
The area is also frequented by the "bedlinen lady", a woman who takes bundles of cash folded into sheets to borrowers' homes.
The ancillary characters — the two cops, the blustery Russian and the eccentric old lady who frequents the shop (Jane Alderman) — might have come straight from the Sidekicks, Neighbors and Friends rack, although the excellent actors imbue them all with a sharp specificity.
"It was not one of the bars the ladies frequented regularly," said the writer Marijane Meaker (pseudonymously M. E. Kerr), who is now finishing a memoir, "Remind Me".
The ladies on "Girls" frequent coffee shops, but none are as honeyed as Central Perk.
Locals sometimes call her "the C-Span lady" because of her frequent appearances dispensing advice to politicians.
You end up in a universe you might have glimpsed a fragment of in a dream," states Lady Amanda Harlech, a frequent collaborator.
Diana Taylor, far left, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's frequent companion and the unofficial first lady of New York City, on her way to a business lunch with a thousand Asian businesspeople, looked every bit the 21st-century executive woman.
