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Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon. The play won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Lost in Yonkers is a coming-of-age story set in Yonkers, New York. Simon's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play centers around two brothers, Arty and Jay, who live with their grandmother and their mentally challenged Aunt Bella, while their father travels, desperately trying to scrape enough money together while working as a salesman to pay off ...
By America's great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep.
Feb 5, 2020 · Lost in Yonkers at Riverside Theatre Feb 4-23, 2020 The Tony® Award and Pulitzer Prize Winning Masterpiece Play by Neil Simon A bittersweet comedy! Written by Neil Simon and set in Yonkers,...
Mar 25, 2012 · March 25, 2012. After experiencing the warmly satisfying revival of “Lost in Yonkers” at the Beckett Theater it seems inconceivable that it has taken two decades for this Pulitzer- and...
Lost in Yonkers was a critical and popular success and led to a film adaptation in 1993. Although many of Simon's plays had won major dramatic awards before this, Lost in Yonkers was the first Simon play to win the Pulitzer Prize. Many critics consider the play to be Simon's best work and the pinnacle of his career.
Play. Writers: Neil Simon. Context. Set during in 1942, Lost in Yonkers is similar to many of Neil Simon’s plays that explore Jewish Americans during the World War II era such as the Eugene Trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound).
Original. close gallery. Lost in Yonkers Playbill - Opening Night, Feb 1991. Broadway. Original. Richard Rodgers Theatre. 226 W 46th St., New York, NY. SYNOPSIS: playwright: Neil Simon....
Lost in Yonkers is a play by American playwright Neil Simon that premiered in 1991. It centers around Jay Kurnitz, a teenage boy sent with his younger brother, Arty , to live with his grandmother in Yonkers.
A quietly powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their identities and also represent a new life.
