Ten essential plays by Neil Simon, one of the world’s most celebrated, translated, and widely performed playwrights.
Barefoot in the Park: Newlyweds move into a new apartment with no furniture, a leaking skylight, and wacky neighbors.
The Odd Couple: Two legendarily mismatched roommates bring down the house in this classic comedy by America’s most successful playwright.
Plaza Suite: Simon’s hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the renowned Plaza Hotel in New York City.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue: A penetrating look at apartment life, career reversals, and marital tension.
California Suite: Four couples separately inhabit the same Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and marital dilemmas.
Chapter Two: Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Simon’s portrait of a widowed novelist who fears he’ll never love again.
Brighton Beach Memoirs: In the first installment of Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical Eugene Trilogy, we meet his family in 1930’s Brooklyn.
Biloxi Blues: The second installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical Eugene Trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp.
Broadway Bound: In the final installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical Eugene Trilogy, Eugene and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of comedy writing.
Lost in Yonkers: Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother.