A Lovely Lady Josephine Baker!

Accoeding to Spare Times, It’s called a good book, and Nora Ephron had the good sense to choose one — “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” — as the basis of a play that she wrote with her sister, Delia. “It was an amazing book, because it’s got this completely interactive quotient,” Ms. Ephron said of the memoir, in which Ilene Beckerman recounts her life story according to the outfits she wore. “You read about her life, and whether or not it’s like yours, you start thinking about your life and your clothes and what you were wearing when whatever horrible thing happened to you.”

The Ephrons set about soliciting their friends’ memories to supplement those in the book, creating a funny, compelling work that the theater producer Daryl Roth has ushered into her DR2 Theater to benefit — appropriately — Dress for Success, a nonprofit group that provides clothing and career development for disadvantaged women. Each week the five roles are filled by a rotating cast that most producers would kill for: on Monday the stars include, above from left, Debi Mazar, Rosie O’Donnell and the comedian Casey Wilson, and in the coming weeks Blythe Danner, America Ferrera and Parker Posey are among the boldface names.