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,

Ephron’s drama at the James Earl Jones Theatre is a study of bad life stuff has a habit of coming all at once.