You couldn’t miss Ivy Wilmot’s photographs during the late 1970s. Beginning with candids she shot for Harper’s Bazaar, she was celebrated for her celebrity features and covers that also appeared in Interview, W, Rolling Stone, and many others.

“Girl with a Camera” is Ivy’s autobiography, told during a gallery opening in Connecticut featuring a few dozen of her photos. She has chosen eight of those pictures around which to frame her story, beginning with a crime-scene photo she was lucky enough to capture while on a high-school trip, and which made the cover of the Daily News.

Ivy’s fractious relationship with Jeanne Morris, the teacher-chaperone on that trip, continues well past high school and involves elements of betrayal, but it’s Jeanne’s gallery in which the show takes place.

Ambition and betrayal also mark Ivy’s relationship with movie star Marc French. Their marriage is the result of a photo assignment from Harper’s Bazaar, and her most famous shot of him, in which he’s tearing a pillow with his teeth, is photo number two. His violent side is reflected in a later photo, the career-ending self portrait Ivy takes showing the result of his battering on her naked body. Such is the outcry from his fans – this is in 1985 – that her freelance assignments dry up and she takes a job with a book publisher, where she’s asked to work on titles about other photographers.

We meet her father, Julius, an optical engineer working a secret government job that also brings Ivy into contact with Lester, the FBI agent assigned to assure the company of Julius’s probity. But there’s a skeleton in the closet, of course, and Lester is torn between pressuring Ivy into betraying her dad and declaring his own love for her.

Harper’s Bazaar photo editor Nancy Rosetti is another decisive influence in Ivy’s life. She recognizes Ivy’s creativity and encourages her, even as Nancy’s own career is compromised by the changing nature of the business and her own excessive drinking. The world of photography goes digital; Ivy has to struggle not to feel left behind.

Unfolding throughout the play is the story of Ivy’s older brother, David, killed in Vietnam in a helicopter accident, his death exacerbating the rift between father and daughter. It’s only as Ivy reaches her 50s – she’s 58 as she narrates her story – that she finds a pathway towards peace. Photo number eight is portrait of Lester in the garden they share. But the play ends, as it begins, with the young Ivy working alongside her father in their darkroom, learning the art of her craft.

It’s a comedy about love in the middle ages – the middle 40s, that is. Lynn is a soon-to-be-divorced mother of two who meets Vince in her lawyer’s office. He’s a charming, somewhat too-outspoken man who is himself recently divorced from a fashion model named Holly and is trying to get his lawyer to prevent her from giving him any more money, even as Holly schemes to get him back. Add to all this Lynn’s mother, Ellie, a font of bad advice, and Lynn’s estranged husband, Bob, and what’s supposed to be a romantic dinner for two in the second act turns into a five-way chaos. But it’s a journey with plenty of laughs, a few insights into the hell of dating, and even a sentimental twist or two.

Dean lost his fortune in the recent economic collapse. Linda, his banker, takes him in as a lodger. After a former boss ropes him into a hopeless multi-level marketing scheme and he discovers that Linda is not only married but also dealing in stolen antiques, he turns to the spirit of Barbara Stanwyck to save him. Which she does.