Theater: Beckett Theatre / 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036
Synopsis:
Lost In Yonkers is the 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Chapter Two). In this memory play set in 1942 Yonkers, Bella is 35-years-old, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'r do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hood in a strange new world called Yonkers.
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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 Tony-winning 1991 Neil Simon play to return to a New York stage.
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March 22, 2012: In the new production of Neil Simon’s 1991 Pulitzer-winning “Lost in Yonkers,” clouds loom over the Kurnitz family living room.
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March 25, 2012: When Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” opened back in 1991, all three of its leads — Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth and Kevin Spacey — won Tony Awards.
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March 22, 2012: Who's afraid of grandma? Only everyone who's related to her, in Neil Simon's dysfunctional Kurnitz family, as created in his 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Lost in Yonkers."
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March 23, 2012: “The one place in the world you’re safe is with your family.” That’s what a shady uncle tells his two teenage nephews in the darkest play on Neil Simon’s shtick-filled résumé, Lost in Yonkers, but the words aren’t very reassuring. For brothers Jay (Matthew Gumley) and Arty (Russell Posner), the home of Grandma Kurnitz (Cynthia Harris) is no sanctuary in 1942, after their mother’s death sends their father out of town to earn money. These lost boys are thrust into the cold care of his ornery elderly mother—whose version of love is as hard to swallow as her soup—and their sweet but dim 35-year-old aunt, Bella (Finnerty Steeves), still living in the home where her wings were long ago clipped. So much for safety.
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