1893. After a harrowing journey, recent college graduate Leon Tolinchinsky arrives in Kulyenchikov, Ukraine, to tutor Sophia Zubritsky, nineteen. Her parents, Nickolai and Leyna, inform him the village is cursed, rendering every resident as dumb as a bag...
Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day âJobâ with a demanding wife, ungrateful children, and wise-cracking household employees. Just when it seems things couldnât get any worse...
Here is a decidedly French dinner party served up in a chaotic mode that only a master of comedy could create. Five people are invited to dine at a first rate restaurant in Paris. They do not know who the other guests will be or why they have been invited...
"Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 4 females Scenery: Interior Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounde...
From America's master of Contemporary Broadway Comedy, here is another revealing comedy behind the scenes in the entertainment world, this time near the heart of the theatre district. 45 Seconds from Broadway takes place in the legendary "Polish...
Inspired by the playwrightâs youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesarâs Your Show of Shows , with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags...
In her beach house in the Hamptons, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads: she hasnât written anything in years and money is getting short. Her former lover, literary lion Walsh McLaren, offers her-from beyond the grave-an...
Neil Simonâs first Broadway comedy smash. Alan Baker, a 30-ish swinging bachelor with time, money and women to spare, welcomes rebellious and eager 21-year brother Buddy into his den of iniquity while their horrified parents can only...
Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next,...
Recent widower, writer George Schneider, is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again. Which sends George into even more depression after a series of bad matches. Then Leo comes up with Jennie Malone and she's a keeper. Still, it's...
"It's a humorous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadelphia, Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago. In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question...
Comedy / 4m, 2f / Int. Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. Heâs a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and sheâs a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most rece...
Comedy / 2m, 6f / Int.Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simonâs hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the...