The actress Lois Robbins is currently starring in a one-woman show that she wrote, “L.O.V.E.R.,” which is onstage Off Broadway at Pershing Square Signature Center. The show is billed as “one woman’s confession of what goes on behind closed doors and between the sheets.”

Ms. Robbins is not shy about sharing her life in art, either. She and her husband, Andrew Zaro, a financial services executive, have amassed a collection numbering more than 100 pieces, by such names as Jeff Koons, Anish Kapoor and Wayne Thiebaud.

In her collecting, as in her stage work, Ms. Robbins lets instinct guide her. She recalled the day she and her husband visited the studio of the sculptor Carole Feuerman and fell in love with a couple of pieces. Ms. Feuerman said she would love to see where the sculptures would go.

Ms. Robbins said they told her, “We’re heading out to the beach right now. If you don’t have much going on this weekend, you can come with us.” But on the Long Island Expressway, en route to the couple’s home in the Hamptons, Ms. Robbins said, “Carole goes, ‘I’m so sorry, what are your names again?’”