2009 Season July 13-Aug. 15

Performance Calendar

Last of the Red Hot Lovers • Harvey • Biloxi Blues

Last of the Red Hot Lovers
by Neil Simon
Barney Cashman at the age of 47 wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late, but Barney Cashman is a gentle sober soul with a true blue wife of 23 years and absolutely no experience in adultery, so he fails in each of three seductions. "Delightfully hilarious and witty, as well as filled with wisdom about human nature . . . . An uproariously funny author. But he is far more than that. He has a mellow and compassionate understanding of how weak and essentially well-meaning mankind behaves. . . . A genuinely brilliant play." N.Y. Post.

Harvey
by Mary Chase

When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also!

Biloxi Blues
by Neil Simon

"Best Play," 1985 Tony Award. This is the second installmentin the continuing saga of Eugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon. When we last met Eugene, he was coping with adolescence in the 1930's in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during the Second World War, going through his basic training, learning more about Life, and generally developing his Writer's sensibility at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943. "A fine comedy, and another step in the process of making Simon neither so simple, nor so simplistic." N.Y. Post.  "Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding." N.Y. Times.  "A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweeter truth." N.Y. Magazine.

See the 2009 Calendar for performance dates and times.