Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in this quasi romantic comedy adapted from Ephron’s memoir, which went deeper into her illness and grief.

Joan Didion knew this when she wrote “The Year of Magical Thinking.” Delia Ephron learned this before writing her new Broadway play, “Left on Tenth.” And most regular folks of a certain age, such as my centenarian mother,

Played by Julianna Margulies (ER, The Good Wife) with endless appeal that doesn’t shortchange the harsher aspects of a chemo-drenched recovery, the play’s Delia Ephron is still getting used to being alone following the recent death of her husband when a long-ago acquaintance emails from out of the blue after reading Ephron’s New York Times article referencing her widowhood.