Last chance to catch “Fifth of July”

The final curtain comes down this weekend on “The Fifth of July,” a critically acclaimed revival of one of the most celebrated plays by Lanford Wilson, who died in March at the age of 73.

Wilson’s Tony-nominated production takes place in 1977, as a group of old friends, former anti-war activists at Berkeley in the late ‘60s, gather for a weekend and take stock of their lives and loves, hopes and disappointments as they ruminate about the past and look toward an uncertain future.

Critics hailed the play as “a major work by one of the theater’s most important and celebrated writers.”

Get your tickets now for its two final performances this Friday and Saturday evening at The Lex Theatre, 6760 Lexington Avenue in Hollywood . They’re available online through Brown Paper Tickets, or by phone at (800) 838-3006. Curtain is at 8 p.m., and here’s a Google map to the theatre.

Posted 6/23/11