What's on at the theatre - London
The Adelphi Theatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical. their stories in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIES.
Ten years after the mysterious disappearance of The Phantom from the Paris Opera House, Christine Daaé accepts an offer to come to America and perform at New York’s fabulous new playground of the world – Coney Island.
Arriving in New York with her husband Raoul and their son Gustave, Christine soon discovers the identity of the anonymous impresario who has lured her from France to sing.
This brand-new show is a roller coaster ride of obsession and intrigue…in which music and memory can play cruel tricks… and The Phantom sets out to prove that, indeed, LOVE NEVER DIES.
the Noel Coward Theatre
Enron The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.
One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, it follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2009.
Based on real life and using music, movement and video, ENRON will be directed by Headlong Theatre's Artistic Director Rupert Goold in his Royal Court directorial debut. His recent credits include the award-winning Macbeth and Six Characters in Search of an Author and King Lear, No Man's Land and Oliver!
Lucy Prebble won the George Devine Award and the Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright for her debut play The Sugar Syndrome at the Royal Court in 2004.
The Aldwych Theatre
Dirty Dancing It's the summer of 1963, and 17 year old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is about to learn some major lessons in life as well as a thing or two about dancing.
The Apollo Theatre(Shafestbury)
ALL MY SONS - the first great success of Arthur Miller's supremely influential career - is a compelling story of love, guilt and the corrupting power of greed.
Joe Keller David Suchet) is alleged to have supplied World War II fighter planes with defective engines, leading to the deaths of innocent pilots - a crime for which his business partner took the fall.
One of Keller's sons, himself a pilot, is thought to have been killed in action. But his mother (Zoe Wanamaker) can't accept his death and equally, can't accept that her dead son's fiancée has transferred her affections to her other son.
The confrontations that ensue lead to the uncovering of a shameful family secret...
The Apollo Theatre(Victoria)
Based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire that re-imagined the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', WICKED tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Winner of over 35 major awards around the world (including the Laurence Olivier Award for 'Most Popular Show') WICKED has been acclaimed as "one of the biggest hits of our era" (The Observer) and "the best musical of the decade" (Entertainment Weekly).
Experience this unforgettable musical and discover that you've not been told the whole story about the Land of Oz...
Based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire that re-imagined the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', WICKED tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
The Arts Theatre
Lilies on the Land is a truly remarkable and sparkling piece of theatre which celebrates an extraordinary episode in Britain’s history – the Women’s Land Army of World War II
These gripping but charming tales chart the personal journeys of four women who sign up to become Land Girls, determined to work endless, backbreaking hours on farms across the country in a bid to do their best for the War Effort.
But how will these women, hailing from all different walks of life, torn from their families and bereft of all basic home comforts, deal not only with the hardships of farming life and the pressures of war, but also with being outsiders in new surroundings? Maybe work clothes full of mice and toilet rolls falling from the skies are just what it takes for these girls to get through…
Based on hundreds of letters from and interviews with the original Land Girls along with songs from the period, Lilies on the Land is a revealing, funny, wonderfully moving and utterly captivating portrait of some of Britain’s pluckiest, unsung heroes. Simply unmissable, this is theatre at its most memorable
The Ambassador theatre
Stomp
The international hit Stomp is currently showing at the Ambassadors Theatre.
Tickets are on sale now at prices ranging from £25.00 to £49.50.
Stomp
The international hit Stomp is currently showing at the Ambassadors Theatre.
Tickets are on sale now at prices ranging from £25.00 to £49.50.
The Cambridge Theatre
Musical Chicago
London Coliseum: English National Opera
PUCCINI
Giacosa and Illica after Sardou
New Production.The Pearl FishersBIZET
Cormon and Carré
New Production
Tue 01 Jun 10 - Thu 08 Jul 10
9 performances remaining
MOZART
Varesco after Danchet
New Production
The Comedy Theatre
Mrs Warren's ProfessionStarring Felicity Kendal
Wednesday 09 June 2010 to Saturday 19 June 2010
By George Bernard Shaw
Director Michael Rudman
What is Mrs Warren’s profession? Her daughter Vivie has never really known much about her mother. A prim young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education and a generous monthly allowance. Now she has ambitions to go into Law. Is it conceivable
that all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the proceeds of the oldest profession? How will Vivie react when she finds out the awful truth about her mother’s ill-gotten gains?
Shaw’s ultimate test of a mother-daughter relationship is one of his most witty and provocative plays. Written in 1894 but banned from performance until the racy 1920s, Mrs Warren’s Profession
lays bare the rampant hypocrisy of Victorian society and its constrained morals.
Felicity Kendal’s television credits include The Good Life and Rosemary and Thyme. Her numerous stage appearances include The Vortexn and most recently, The Last Cigarette.
Hotly anticipated as this year's must-see production, La Bête is a dazzling, critically acclaimed comedy by American playwright David Hirson.
LA BETE
Saturday 26 June 2010 to Saturday 04 September 2010
Starring the extraordinary 2010 Olivier Award-winning actor Mark Rylance (Jerusalem, Boeing-Boeing), 'the most exciting stage actor of his generation' (Times), the wonderful Tony and Emmy Award-winning David Hyde Pierce (best known as Niles in the smash-hit sitcom Frasier), and one of the country's most loved and popular actresses, the magnificent Joanna Lumley, this new staging is directed by the internationally acclaimed, multi-award-winning Matthew Warchus (God of Carnage, Boeing-Boeing, Art, The Norman Conquests).
When The Princess (Joanna Lumley) invites street clown Valere (Mark Rylance) to inject some bawdy fun and mischief into her staid acting troupe, she anticipates an exciting creative combination. But the troupe's leader, Elomire (David Hyde Pierce), is an elitist and fervent lover of high-brow theatre who clashes with Valere - a gaudy comic and a fervent lover of .... well, himself. So begins a gloriously witty and wildly hilarious battle of art and egos.
Written in 1991, La Bête was a huge critical success in London in 1992 and won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
The Criterion Theatre
Adapted by Patrick Barlow. From an original concept by Simon Corble & Nobby Dimon.
John Buchan’s THE 39 STEPS – memorably filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935 – continues its sensational run at the Criterion Theatre.
Literally nothing has been cut from this HILARIOUS AND SPECTACULAR version of Britain’s most spell-binding thriller – legendary scenes include THE CHASE ON THE FLYING SCOTSMAN, THE ESCAPE ON THE FORTH BRIDGE, THE FIRST THEATRICAL BI–PLANE CRASH EVER STAGED, THE RATHER PROVOCATIVE ‘BEDROOM’ SEQUENCE and the death-defying (or nearly!) FINALE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM!
With four actors playing a minimum of ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY NINE ROLES, THE 39 STEPS proves to be the most astonishing THEATRICAL TOUR DE FORCE of this, or any other, decade.
Winner: Best New Comedy - Olivier Awards
Dominion Theatre
We Will Rock You is set in the future, on a place once called Earth. Globalisation is complete. Everyone watches the same movies, wears the same clothes, and thinks the same thoughts. A safe, happy Ga Ga world.
The Company Computers generate the music and the kids download it. All musical instruments are banned. But resistance is growing.
A hero is needed.
Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man, and can he help them Break Free...?
Legendary band Queen, fronted by the dynamic Freddie Mercury before his death in 1991, have been making music together since the 70’s and have now joined forces with writer Ben Elton to bring their unique sound to theatreland...
The Duchess Theatre
This magical new West End production of the legendary New York phenomenon THE FANTASTICKS features a world class cast of musical theatre talent and an impressive creative team led by director Amon Miyamoto, best known for his Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Pacific Overtures.
The cast is led by musical theatre veterans Clive Rowe (Olivier Award, numerous National Theatre, West End and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Hackney Empire panto appearances), David Burt (Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award nominated for his many West End musical performances), respected stage and screen actor Edward Petherbridge (Olivier Award and twice Tony nominated), Hadley Fraser (male lead in Boublil and Schönberg’s Pirate Queen on Broadway), Paul Hunter and Carl Au. Up-and-coming stars Lorna Want (Evita , Footloose) and Luke Brady play the wide-eyed young lovers who want to experience the world.
Duke of York's Theatre
BEDROOM FARCE Peter Hall’s production of Bedroom Farce, one of Ayckbourn’s best loved works, opened to critical acclaim at the Rose Theatre in Kingston last year and now makes its return to the West End at the Duke of York’s Theatre for a fifteen week run from March 24th.
Bedroom Farce features an all-star cast, including Daniel Betts (Silent Witness, The Bill); Sara Crowe (from Calendar Girls at the West End and film credits including Four Weddings and a Funeral); Tony Gardner (from the multi-award-winning CITV show My Parents Are Aliens and Jack Dee’s hit BBC sitcom Lead Balloon); David Horovitch (who rose to fame in Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and recently appeared in the Oscar winning film The Young Victoria); Rachel Pickup (Midsomer Murders, Doctors); Jenny Seagrove (who starred as Jo Mills in the hit BBC drama Judge John Deed); Orlando Seale (Casualty, Fred Claus, The IT Crowd) and Finty Williams (from the multi-award-winning BBC show Cranford and the Oscar winning film Gosford Park).
Four couples, three bedrooms, two celebrations, one blazing row and an illicit kiss (or two). Alan Ayckbourn’s ingenious comedy shines a brilliant spotlight onto the trials and tribulations of suburban marriage
Fortune Theatre
Woman in Black One of the most exciting, gripping and successful theatre events ever staged, The Woman In Black, is now in its twentieth year in the West End. Unanimously acclaimed by the critics, Stephen Mallatratt's adaptation of Susan Hill's best selling novel combines the power and intensity of live theatre with a cinematic quality inspired by the world of film noir.
A lawyer obsessed with a curse that he believes has been cast over him and his family by the spectre of a Woman in Black, engages a sceptical young actor to help him tell his terrifying story and exorcise the fear that grips his soul. It all begins innocently enough, but then, as they reach further into his darkest memories, they find themselves caught up in a world of eerie marshes and moaning winds.
The borders between make believe and reality begin to blur and the flesh begins to creep ...
The Garrick Theatre
All Fun of the Fair David Essex and Boogie Nights creator Jon Conway invite you to a roller coaster ride of a musical, underscored by a helter- skelter of David Essex hits and album favourites.
Inspired by David Essex’s debut album ‘All The Fun Of The Fair’, as the words of the title song suggest David plays fun fair owner Levi Lee, recently widowed and father of a rebellious teenage son. Danger and mysticism lurk in the future, as predicted by the gypsy fortune teller who is in love with Levi. This moving and contemporary story with a heartbreaking twist, reaches out to every parent and anyone who has ever been torn in love.
Dodgems and motorbikes, crafty cons and candy floss, fairground horses and fights, along with romance and rock and roll bring out the carnival atmosphere, but beware… all is not always fun at the fair!
Her Majesty Theatre
Phantom of the Opera Her Majesty's Theatre, London has been home to the original production of The Phantom Of The Opera since it first opened on October 9th 1986 and is now in its 23rd year.
“Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical extravaganza...”
The Lyceum
The Lyceum Theatre has existed in the Covent Garden area since 1765, making it one of the oldest theatres in London. Since 1999 it has been home to the smash-hit musical, The Lion King, the story of a young cub who is rightfully king, made an outcast by his uncle. The stage adaptation of the Disney classic features the songs by Elton John and Tim Rice known and loved by children and adults alike, plus some new songs and scenes.
The Lyric Theatre
17-19June Tightrope Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls – the circus is about to begin. Welcome to Tightrope, the biggest, most dangerous, amazingly spectacular Amici Dance Theatre Company show in all of their 30 years.
This is the story of an ageing circus company who have stuck together, struggling against the odds to survive, but will this be their final performance?
The Lyric’s resident dance theatre company, Amici, integrate able-bodied and disabled artists and performers to challenge conventional attitudes to disability and the arts. Tightrope is Amici’s 30th anniversary show.
7-17 July Lifegame is theatrical biography. The show takes the bare bones of a life story by interviewing a guest onstage and then transforming that information, there and then, into a magical piece of theatre. Each Lifegame has a different 'subject' each night, because Lifegame has a different guest each night.
The New London Theatre
WAR HORSE
Booking Period Until 22 October 2011
War Horse is a thrilling and spectacular production based on the celebrated novel by Michael Morpurgo.
The First World War is the backdrop for this tale of bravery, loyalty, and the extraordinary bond between a young recruit and his horse.
Actors, working with astonishing life-sized puppets by the internationally renowned Handspring Puppet Company, take audiences on an unforgettable journey through history.
Winner of Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards.
The New Wimbledon Theatre
The Old Vic Theatre
Following his sell-out success in Speed-the-Plow, Hollywood star Jeff Goldblum makes a hotly-anticipated return to the London stage in Neil Simon’s brilliantly observed, award-winning comedy, The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Academy Award Mercedes Ruehl also stars in this bittersweet, comic masterpiece about a man at breaking point. The play runs at the Vaudeville Theatre from 30 June - 11 September and is directed by Terry Johnson.
Mel Edison (Jeff Goldblum) can't sleep. In the heat of a New York City summer his air-conditioning has broken, his neighbours won't shut-up, his job is hanging by a thread and there are a gang of burglars on the prowl. As things go from bad to worse, Mel heads for a meltdown and his loyal wife Edna (Mercedes Ruehl) is left to pick up the pieces.
Tony and Pulitzer prize winning writer Neil Simon is best known this side of the Atlantic for his plays The Odd Couple, Barefoot in Park and Lost in Yonkers. He has also written the books for many musicals including Promises, Promises and Sweet Charity.
The Open Air Theatre
National Theatre
The National Theatre is located on South Bank near the London Eye and next to the River Thames. It was founded between 1963 and 1976 and houses three auditoriums - Olivier Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre and Lyttelton Theatre. The theatres first artistic director was Oscar-winning British actor, Sir Laurence Olivier, whom the Olivier Theatre is named after. The three auditoriums show a host of plays at any one time.
The New Players Theatre
66A CHURCH ROAD
Monday 31st May 2010 -13th June
Shows Start: 7.30pm
Tickets: £12.00
A Lament Made of Memories and Kept in Suitcases.
Written and Performed by Daniel Kitson.
Winner Fringe First Award 2008. Edinburgh Fringe Previews till August
Novello theatre
Tap Dogs are currently taking the world by storm with their unprecedented tap show that combines the strength and power of workmen with the precision and talent of tap dancing.
Tap Dogs needs little introduction. This was the show, launched from Newcastle with six tap dancers, Olivier Award-winning choreographer Dein Perry, designer/director Nigel Triffitt and composer Andrew Wilkie, that took the world by storm.
Dates
15th June - 5th September 2010
The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen Of the Desert The Musical is a heart-warming, uplifting adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus nicknamed Priscilla searching for love and friendship and end up finding more than they could ever have dreamed. With a dazzling array of outrageous costumes and featuring a score of dance-floor classics, this new musical is a sensational journey to the heart of fabulous.
The London Palladium is considered to be the most famous theatre in the capital city and perhaps even in the United Kingdom, due to its musical variety shows that were televised in the 1950s and 60s and the host of famous celebrities that have performed on the theatre’s stage over the years. It was built by Walter Gibbons in 1910, making the theatre over a century old, and was named ‘The Palladium’ until 1934 when the ‘London’ was added to the official title of the venue.
The Wizard of OZ is presently its big stage hit.
The Peacock Theatre
Bounce's explosive hip hop version of Ken Kesey's classic novel and Dale Wasserman's play, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is fast becoming a classic piece of hip hop theatre, transforming the dance form into real drama on an epic scale. In the confines of a psychiatric hospital, breakdance becomes a way of expressing freedom and rebelling against the iron rule of Nurse Ratched – who happens to be a ballet fan…
Phoenix Theatre
Blood Brothers Written by Willy Russell, author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, the legendary Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to be re-united by a twist of fate and a mother’s haunting secret . The incredible score includes Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe and the emotionally charged hit Tell Me It’s Not True.
Piccadilly Theatre
Grease The smash-hit musical Grease is now in its third great year at London's Piccadilly Theatre - the longest running show in the venue’s history! Noel Sullivan (Flashdance The Musical, Hear'say) stars as Danny Zuko and Siobhan Dillon (finalist in BBC's How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?) stars as Sandy. Grease is the original high-school musical featuring all the unforgettable songs from the movie including You're The One That I Want, Grease Is The Word, Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted To You, Sandy and Greased Lightnin'.
The Playhouse Theatre
Located minutes from Trafalgar Square, the Playhouse Theatre in London opened in 1907 and has since been host to numerous successful plays and musicals. Currently showing at the Playhouse is musical, Dreamboats and Petticoats, a feel-good tale set in the early 1960s featuring classic rock 'n' roll songs by Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison and many, many more. The story follows young musicians Bobby and Norman on a journey that sees them compete with each other to win fame in a song writing competition, as well as the eyes of girls Sue and Laura. When Bobby realises that Laura has musical talent of her own, romance blossoms and rock 'n' roll fame become a reality.
Prince Edward Theatre
Jersey Boys Jersey Boys is the story of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time - Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were 30!
This new musical features their beloved hit songs "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Rag Doll", "Oh What a Night" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" just to name a few.
Queens Theatre
Having been staging shows for over a hundred years, Queen's Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue opened in 1908 and has seen many great actors from Maggie Smith to Noël Coward grace its stage. Les Misérables, the longest-running musical in the West End, currently plays here, and tells the stories of the characters as the struggle in a difficult world. The score includes classic songs such as 'I Dreamed a Dream' and 'Castle on a Cloud.'
The Royal Court Theatre
Ingredient X
Written by Nick Grosso It's Saturday night and the judges are gathering for their prime-time slot, feeding the nation their weekly fix. Except the harshest critics are sitting on your sofa and the mute button doesn’t seem to work.
A tough new comedy about addiction.
Nick Grosso came through the Royal Court’s Young Writers Programme and his monologue Mama Don’t (1993) was produced by the Royal Court, staged at the Commonwealth Institute. His subsequent plays at the Royal Court include his debut, Peaches (later made into a film), Sweetheart, Real Classy Affair and Kosher Harry.
The Royal Opera House
Le nozze di Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro
The Royal Opera
31 May 2010 to 3 July 2010
The Sadler's Wells Theatre
The Soho Theatre
Savoy theatre
Legally Blonde Now Booking until 20 Feb 2011!
Sunday performances now added!
College sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods (Sheridan Smith) doesn’t take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend, Warner (Duncan James), dumps her for someone serious, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law School!
Based on the hit movie of the same name, Legally Blonde the Musical is the award-winning Broadway sensation created by a top-of-their-class creative team, led by Tony Award-winning director and Olivier Award-nominated choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray).
This all singing, all dancing, feel good musical comedy will be the highlight of your year! Legally Blonde the Musical will take you from the social whirl of California Campus life to Harvard’s Halls of Justice with the West End’s brightest new heroine (and of course, her Chihuahua, Bruiser).
The Shaftesbury Theatre
Flashdance Sparks will fly this year as the West End Premiere of FLASHDANCE – The Musical explodes onto the stage at the Shaftesbury Theatre from September 2010.
Set in Pittsburgh, USA, FLASHDANCE tells the story of 18 year old Alex, a welder by day and ‘flashdancer’ by night, whose dream is to obtain a place at the prestigious Shipley Dance Academy.
Based on the Paramount Pictures film (Screenplay by Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas, story by Tom Hedley) FLASHDANCE is an unmistakably unique musical about holding onto your dreams and love against all the odds. The show features an iconic score including the smash hit "Maniac", along with “Manhunt”, "Gloria", “I Love Rock & Roll” and the Academy Award winning title track "Flashdance - What a Feeling" as well as 10 original songs created for the musical.
The Theatre Royal - Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is located in Covent Garden and is the most recent in a line of four theatres on the same ground, the first dating back to 1663. This makes it London’s oldest theatre and one of the most important in the English-speaking world. The present building has existed since 1812 and is owned by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The Trafalguar Studios
Confessions Of A Dancewhore
by Michael Twaits
Politics and pop culture clash in this foul-mouthed theatrical cabaret - an accomplished and vivid performance for everyone who has ever felt like an 'other'. Remixed and revisited for Pride 2010 Confessions of A Dancewhore fuses comedy, burlesque, drag and new media performance to explore the contradictions and clichés of queer life.
St Martin Lane
THE MOUSETRAP has now been running for 58 years during which time over 23,000 performances have been given. It is quite simply a great piece of theatrical history because of what it is, a whodunit written by the greatest crime writer of all time.
A West End staple for nearly 60 years,THE MOUSETRAP is the longest consistently running play in the history of British theatre.
This world record breaking production continues to enthral, to entertain and to thrill audiences who still flock to the St Martin's Theatre from every corner of the globe. In her own inimitable style, Dame Agatha Christie has created an atmosphere of shuddering suspense and a brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner....
THE MOUSETRAP has been thrilling audiences from around the world for as long as Queen Elizabeth II has been on the throne. They have shared Silver and Ruby jubilees and recently both enjoyed their Golden celebration.
The Victoria Palace Theatre
Billy Elliot: The Musical
The stage musical of the hit film Billy Elliot is now booking until December 2010.
Wyndham's Theatre
AVENUE Q is not the most upmarket of New York streets, and is about as far away from Park Avenue as you can get, but it is home to some lively and off the wall characters performed by an unholy comedic alliance of humans and puppets! Princeton, a bright-eyed college graduate, has just moved to this neighbourhood as he desperately tries to follow his dreams and discover his ever-elusive purpose in life.
A tiny bank balance, the distraction of a busty blonde and a variety of weird and wonderful friends and neighbours lead Princeton on a hilarious journey of self-discovery. Life may suck on AVENUE Q but being jobless, homeless, politically incorrect, having sex (whether hetero, homo or porno… and that’s just the puppets!) are just some of the topics featured in the terrific songs of this show. Winner of the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical, you’ll want to be first in the queue for AVENUE Q.
The Young Vic Theatre
The Vaudeville Theatre
Set in the 1970's, The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a black comedy depicting a New York couple, Mel (Jeff Goldblum) and Edna Edison, enduring the trials and tribulations of city life. Mel is made redundant and the stress of an economic crisis and urban life pushes him into having a nervous breakdown. The family gathers to offer support, with Edna stoically bearing the burden of his disintegration and self-pity.
The Prisoner of Second Avenue originally premiered on Broadway in 1971, starring Peter Falk and Lee Grant, where it ran for two years and received a Tony Award nomination. It was subsequently made into a film in 1975, starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bankcroft.
Neil Simon is the winner of three Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Mark Twain Award for American Humor and was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor in 1995. His plays include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, California Suite, Chapter Two, Lost in Yonkers, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, The Dinner Party and books for the musicals for Little Me, Sweet Charity (currently playing in the West End), Promises Promises (currently on Broadway), They're Playing Our Song and The Goodbye Girl.
