Truman Capote is sitting in his apartment. It’s the winter of 1975, and his life in society is over. Why? An act of betrayal. In Esquire magazine, he published a vicious short story filled with the dirty secrets of his “swans”—women like his beloved Babe Paley. And so Tru begins, a one-man show starring Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson, with brief appearances by the two-time Tony nominee Charlotte d’Amboise. Written by Jay Presson Allen using Capote’s own words and works, the show premiered in 1989 with the puckish Robert Morse as the bitter Capote. Rob Ashford directs an intimate and immersive new production on the Upper East Side, in a mansion once owned by a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The audience of 99 is suitably small. —Jeanne Malle