Books with author Neil Simpson

Poker buddies Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison suddenly find themselves bachelors again and innocently decide to share an apartment. In this classic comedy by Americas most prolific and successful playwright, these two legendarily mismatched roommates bring down the house when they try to live together in one eight-room New York City apartment. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Dan Castellaneta, Stanley DeSantis, Steven Hack, Jamie Hanes, Nathan Lane, David Paymer, Linda Purl, Yeardley Smith

In Neil Simons darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930s Brooklyn, 14-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin. Eugenes comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives abroad. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan Silverman and Joyce Van Patten.

Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon play has been a rare one. For more than thirty years, Simon's wry and astute observations on life, love, and the human condition have been making audiences laugh uproariously even as his beautifully realized characters touch their hearts. These five plays show Simon at the pinnacle of his extraordinary career. Rumors Come Blow Your Horn Barefoot in the Park The Odd Couple The Star-Spangled Girl Promises, Promises Plaza Suite Including the author's introduction: "How to Stop Writing and Other Impossibilities".