NEW YORK—In the beginning of the two-person play “About Alice,” the character of Calvin Trillin (Jeffrey Bean) recalls some of the condolence cards he’d received from complete strangers following the death of his wife (Carrie Paff) in 2001. Alice died of complications from lung cancer, ending a fight with the disease that had begun 25 years earlier.
Many of these cards began, “Even though I never really knew Alice.”
