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By America’s great comic playwright, this memory play is set in a Yonkers in 1942. The hit Broadway production featured Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl and Kevin Spacey in award-winning performances.

Bella is a 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 hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.

The best play Simon ever wrote.” – New York Post

“Broadway desperately needs a comedy, a drama, and a hit. With Lost in Yonkers, Mr. Simon has given us all three.” – Wall Street Journal

“One of Simon’s most impressive and funniest plays.” – New York Daily News

“Laughter and tears have come together in a new emotional truth. There are moments in this play when you experience a new kind of laughter from Simon, a silent laughter that doesn’t explode into a yuk but implodes straight into your heart.” – Newsweek

Lost in Yonkers was first presented by Emanuel Azenberg at The Center for the Performing Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on December 31, 1990. This production subsequently moved to Broadway, opening at the Richard Rogers Theater in New York.”