"Outstandingly uplifting."
"A gorgeous love story"
"Hugely Entertaining."
JUNE 12-13, 2026
Be part of the live audience!
Alison Larkin’s hit show, Grief... A Comedy, comes to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, June 12 and 13, where it will be filmed before a live audience for an upcoming television special.
Tickets:
MAHAIWE.ORG
Box Office:
(413) 528-0000
With Music By
GARY SCHREINER
Directed By
SCOTT FLOYD LOCHMUS
Read more about the show in the Berkshire Magazine:
A Love Story
What if your soulmate died...then came back to help you find love again?
Grief... A Comedy is the "outstandingly uplifting" follow-up book to Larkin's hit solo show.
"This is a story that could truly change your life."
ENTERTAINMENT NOW
"Leaves you believing joy really can be found after loss."
DAILY MAIL
SOVAS Awards Finalist for Outstanding Audiobook Narration (Author Performance), alongside Matthew McConaughey and John Green.
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GRIEF… A Comedy Top 10 Pick at the Oxford Literary Festival.
Alison Larkin talks with Gibraltar’s Minister for Culture.
The Barker Adoption Foundation’s 80th Anniversary
with Alison Larkin as special guest!
Learn More
NEWSWEEK
I Found True Love in My 50s, My Fiance Died 5 Days After He Proposed
WAMC/NPR interview
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It’s Got Pockets Podcast interview
Listen here
BBC Radio: Woman’s Hour Interview
“Engaging and beautiful … An uplifting and affirming experience.”
I finally found love after my divorce…
I found the love of my life at 50 — then my fiancé died
Alison has been featured in...
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by Alison Larkin
A Vogue Most Powerful Book of the Season
A Redbook Book Club Pick of the Month
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A compulsively readable autobiographical novel about an adopted English woman who finds her birth parents – and herself – in the United States.
“The English American is a funny, charming and poignant book — the kind that you can’t resist reading in a single day.” —Chicago Sun Times
“Alison Larkin is hugely entertaining”
—The Times (London)
Read by Alison Larkin
Produced by Alison Larkin Presents
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Alison Larkin’s critically acclaimed narrations of Austen’s six completed novels – Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion – are brought together in this very special 200th anniversary audio edition
A new audiobook imprint showcasing high quality audio productions of classic English novels, contemporary mysteries, women’s fiction, non-fiction, YA, and more.
“(Larkin) approaches Austen as a satirist – she has genuine theatrical skill…The voice reveals all.”
The New Yorker
