Brighton Beach Memoirs – Williamsburg Players – September 8 to September 24, 2023

By Neil Simon
Presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals
Director: Lisa Velardi
From September 8 to September 24, 2023
GET TICKETS!

About the show:

Part one of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy draws a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in the crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn neighborhood of Brighton Beach. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and focus of the play. Obsessed with baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundanity of family life in Brooklyn: his formidable Jewish mother Kate, his overworked father Jack, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Cram the apartment
with his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly maturing) daughters (Nora and Laurie) and you have a recipe for hilarity. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as Jack states, “If you didn’t have a problem, you wouldn’t be living here.”