Ten essential has by Neil Simon, among the world’s most famous, translated, and widely performed playwrights.

Barefoot in the Park

Newlyweds transfer to a new house with no home furniture, the wrong color, leaking

skylight and wacky neighbours! A classic comedy! Performed by: Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred Shiffman, Judy Simmons and Eric Stoltz.

The Odd Couple

Two legendarily mismatched roommates lower the house in this classic comedy by America’s most successful playwright..Read More on the subject of The The Neil Simon Collection Performed by: Dan Castellaneta, Stanley DeSantis, Steven Hack, Jamie Hanes, Nathan Lane, David Paymer, Linda Purl and Yeardley Smith

Plaza Suite

Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy follows 3 short encounters in the same collection at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. Performed by: Edward Asner, Michelle Costa, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Amy Irving, Marsha Mason, Alfred Molina, Kerry Shale, Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Fast-moving dialog with nonstop Simon quips and jokes performed very well by two fine actors: who could ask for even more? Performed by: Annie Abbott, Lorin Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss, Betty Garrett, Sharon Madden and Marsha Mason.

California Suite

A four component comedy confection as just Neil Simon can write it! Four couples individually inhabit the same Beverly Hills hotel suite, getting along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Performed by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason and Amy Pietz.

Chapter Two

Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simon’s portrait of the widowed novelist who have concerns he’ll never like again. Performed by: David Dukes, Sharon Gless, Gates McFadden and Grant Shaud.

Brighton Seaside Memoirs

In Neil Simon’s first installment of his darkly funny semiautobiographical Eugene Trilogy, we meet up with his family in 1930’s Brooklyn. Performed by: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan

Silverman and Joyce Vehicle Patten.

Biloxi Blues

The next hilarious installment of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through training. Performed by: Justine Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera, Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Josh Radnor, Russell Soder and Darby Stanchfield

Broadway Bound

In the final installment of Neil Simon’s trilogy, Eugene and his brother Stanley set up to break into the world of comedy writing. Performed by: Caroline Aaron, Dan Castellaneta, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Wayne Gleason, Alan Mandell, Jonathan Silverman, JoBeth Williams and Scott Wolf.

Shed in Yonkers

Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two kids, aged 13 and 16, have to spend one year using their austere and demanding grandmother. Performed by: Barbara Bain, Gia Carides, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Diskin, Arye Gross, Roxanne Hart and Kenneth Schmidt.