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2010 Season July 15-Aug. 14 California Suite • Steel Magnolias • Broadway Bound California Suite Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.It's a humorous confection divided into four parts: In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband with a drunken hooker. Visitors from London brings a British star as Academy Award nominee. Diana returns from the ceremony empty-handed to husband Sidney whose homosexuality will be no comfort tonight. The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should not have shared. "Mr. Simon is writing at his ebullient best...his language has the grace of conversation we wish our friends could muster...makes us laugh so effortlessly."-N.Y. Times Steel Magnolias A play which met with immediate critical and popular acceptance in its premier production by New York's WPA Theatre. Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. "Harling has given his women sharp, funny dialogue…The play builds to a conclusion that is deeply moving." —NY Daily News. "…a skillfully crafted, lovingly evoked picture of eccentricity in the small-town South" —Drama-Logue. "…suffused with humor and tinged with tragedy." —NY Post. Picking up where Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues ended, part three of Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy finds Eugene and his older brother Stanley trying to break into the world of professional comedy writing while coping with the breakup of their family. Their efforts to come up with an idea for a comedy sketch sparkle with hilarity. When their material is broadcast on the radio for the first time, the family is upset to hear a comedy rendition of their trials and tribulations. "Contains some of the author's most accomplished writing." N.Y. Times. "A lovely play; warm, perceptive and gently humorous." Newsday. "Expectedly funny and unexpectedly moving." N.Y. Daily News. |
