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Neil Simon

February 2024

  • Lucy Black (Hazel) and Derek Riddell (John) in Till the Stars Come Down at the National Theatre

    The week in theatre: Till the Stars Come Down; Othello; Plaza Suite – review

    Beth Steel’s battling Notts wedding guests are a treat; Ola Ince’s Met police Othello makes horrible sense; and Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker star in a creaking Neil Simon revival

January 2024

  • Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick in Plaza Suite.

    Plaza Suite review – Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are spectacles at the celebrity circus

    Despite a thrilling premise – New York’s power couple staging unhappy marriages – this dated production coasts on its stars’ fame rather than testing their seasoned skills on the boards

September 2023

  • Sarah Jessica Parker and Mathew Broderick in Plaza Suite

    ‘Who can afford them?’: theatregoers react to £395 tickets for Neil Simon play

    Next year’s opening of Plaza Suite in West End, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, reignites affordability debate

June 2023

  • Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick in Plaza Suite.

    Sarah Jessica Parker to make West End debut with husband Matthew Broderick

    The pair will star in a revival of Neil Simon’s marriage comedy Plaza Suite, which transfers from a hugely successful Broadway run

March 2022

  • Mathew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker in Plaza Suite

    Plaza Suite review – Sarah Jessica Parker sells Neil Simon’s marriage comedy

    The Sex and the City star plays well opposite her husband Matthew Broderick in an overlong triptych of bitter relationship tales

March 2020

  • Breezily welcome comedy … Barefoot in the Park.

    Barefoot in the Park review – Neil Simon's newlyweds in a riveting ritual

    Jessica Hardwick and Olivier Huband are compelling as a young couple facing harsh realities once their honeymoon ends

April 2019

  • Brimming with good tunes ... Sweet Charity.

    Sweet Charity review – Anne-Marie Duff has the rhythm of life

    Josie Rourke turns this spirited Broadway musical into a hymn to female resilience in her exhilarating farewell production at the Donmar

September 2018

  • An eternal cockeyed optimist ... Rebecca Trehearn in Sweet Charity

    Sweet Charity review – cracking revival with Rebecca Trehearn a pitch-perfect lead

    A strong score, fresh choreography and a spirited cast save Fellini-inspired musical from the dustbin of history

26 August 2018

  • Neil Simon in 1981.

    Neil Simon obituary

    American playwright and screenwriter best known for The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park and The Sunshine Boys
  • Neil Simon with James Caan on the set of Chapter Two, 1979. Simon’s longest runners were Barefoot in the Park (1963) and Brighton Beach Memoirs (1982).

    Neil Simon: master comic craftsman and a Broadway titan for four decades

    From his early years working for Sid Caesar, the gifted, prolific New Yorker became a Broadway institution
  • Neil Simon in 1994.

    Neil Simon, giant of American stage, dies aged 91

    Author of The Odd Couple and The Sunshine Boys won a Pulitzer and four Tonys, and dominated Broadway for many years

January 2017

  • Gabriel Vick as Baxter and Daisy Maywood as Fran in Promises, Promises.

    Promises, Promises review – Bacharach's musical makeover of Wilder's Apartment

  • Kaisa Hammarlund as Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity - Photo Richard Davenport

    Sweet Charity review – five-star revival of the 60s Broadway musical

December 2016

  • Kaisa Hammarlund as Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity

    Sweet Charity review – smug farrago is perfect musical for Trump's America

    A luckless New York dancer takes scraps from a rich man’s table in a terrific-looking and sounding revival of the 60s show written by Neil Simon

May 2012

  • sunshine boys,devito,griffiths,savoy,

    The Sunshine Boys; AirHotel; Detroit – review

    DeVito and Griffiths outshine Neil Simon's tired vaudeville play. And in the Norfolk woods, getting into bed is the biggest drama, writes Susannah Clapp

April 2012

  • Extra Sunshine Boys

    COMPETITION CLOSED Win a West End break to see The Sunshine Boys

    One Guardian Extra member can win two top price tickets to see Neil Simon's comedy The Sunshine Boys plus a stay at The Savoy. The show stars Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths and the competition closes on 5 May

July 2010

  • prisoner-of-second-avenue

    The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    Vaudeville, London
    Jeff Goldblum and Melissa Ruehl fail to squeeze enough laughs out of this 1971 Neil Simon revival, writes Killian Fox

January 2010

  • carrie-fisher-wishful-drinking

    Broadway round-up

    Shows are closing by the dozen, David Mamet's latest is little short of tepid, so thank heavens for Neil Simon and the ever-candid Carrie Fisher, writes Matt Wolf

May 2007

  • The Sunshine Boys

    Three stars Malcolm Rennie and Lou Hirsch make a cantankerous odd couple in Neil Simon's vaudeville drama.

January 1999

  • Growing up is hard to do

    What happened to Matthew Broderick? That depends on how much promise you may have rather thoughtlessly paper-clipped onto his tissue-thin screen persona, as he aged from teenage Neil Simon ingenu to the exhausted, hound-doggish semi-human he appeared to be amid the narcotic destruction of Godzilla.

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