Posts Tagged ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’
Wit and Serious Subject Matter in Scripps’ Terrific ‘Lost in Yonkers’ Staging
The late writer, Neil Simon, is often acknowledged as a comedy master with a gift for memorable one-liners and eccentric characters. Although those elements are in Scripps Ranch Theatre’s production of Simon’s comedy-drama, Lost in Yonkers, the show is full of serious subject matter not always featured in his other famous works.
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Neil Simon sucks, God bless him, except when he doesn’t. North Coast Repertory Theatre is mounting a very good ‘Chapter Two,’ Simon’s tribute to his second wife Marsha Mason and a nod to the pain of widowerhood — for once, this criminally overrated playwright is on to something.
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