Come to City Repertory Theatre Nov. 1 – 17 and enjoy another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships by one of America’s premier comic playwrights, Neil Simon. “Jake’s Women,” which premiered on Broadway in 1992, is the story of Jake, a middle-aged novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life. He tries to come to terms with the challenges he’s having with his marriage by talking to the women in his head – his first wife, his sister, his daughter (at two different ages), and his psychiatrist. But his real life and his imagination have a funny way of getting intertwined.
Broadway performer Eric Bohus plays Jake. Joining him is a great cast of local and regional performers – Hillary J. Walker, Alexandra Lightfoot, Bethany Stillion, Julia Davidson Truilo, Noel Bethea, Lillee Raymond, and Isabella Bond – playing the women in his life (both real and imagined) who are trying to set him on a new path.
Neil Simon was one of America’s most successful and prolific playwrights. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.
“Jake’s Women” opens on November 1 and plays Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through November 17. Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 pm. Sunday matinees are at 3 pm. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students and are available at crtpalmcost.com or by calling the box office at 386-585-9415. The theater is located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, B207, Palm Coast, 32164
