There are beautiful, airbrushed entertainment industry couples like Richard and Elizabeth, Clark and Carole, or Brad and Gwyneth, Brad and Jen and Brad and Angelina. There are strange power couples, such as Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell, or James Carville and Mary Matalin. And then there are the really deep relationships that engender romances intent on getting at the core of all that we know and worship as Love – such as that which is the subject of the play Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keeffe. It returns for a weekend run at the Unison Arts & Learning Center via the Mohonk Mountain Stage Readers’ Theater Company this Friday and Saturday, February 25 and 26.

Written by Lanie Robertson, the play stars Bruce Pileggi as the father of modern photography and Christine Crawfis as Georgia O’Keeffe, the iconic painter who would later become known for her Southwestern work as well as her early feminism. It focuses on a time before the two entered into an open marriage, while she was foremost among the American Modernist painters whom he was championing in his galleries of the time, as well as a Muse and subject of several of Stieglitz’s best-known works.

“Inner and outer vision” was the stuff of both great art and great relationships, in Stieglitz’s view. “Clear and bright and wonderful work” was what O’Keefe said that she and the inspiration whom she would marry searched for in all elements of their life and art. Exploring these motifs, care of director Robert Miller, makes for a gripping and cathartic evening of theater – especially for those in feisty relationships themselves.

The play starts at 8 p.m. both evenings of this run. Unison’s multi-arts center is located at 68 Mountain Rest Road just west of New Paltz. For further information, including reservations, call (845) 255-1559 or visit www.unisonarts.org.