Cast Set For THE ODD COUPLE in Melbourne and Sydney
by Stephi Wild - Mar 11, 2024
The full cast has been announced for Neil Simon’s Tony Award-winning comedy The Odd Couple, which plays at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre from May and Theatre Royal Sydney from June.
THE ODD COUPLE is Now Playing at Riverbank Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 6, 2023
The Odd Couple, a hilarious story about friendship, marriage, and unexpected roommates opened on Sunday, September 3rd at Riverbank Theatre. Learn more about the production here!
PBS to Premiere AMERICAN MASTERS: GROUCHO & CAVETT
by Michael Major - Oct 5, 2022
American Masters: Groucho & Cavett explores the enduring friendship between Emmy Award-winning television personality Dick Cavett and iconic comedian Groucho Marx. Cavett, a writer for Jack Parr on The Tonight Show, met Marx at the funeral of playwright George S. Kaufman in 1961.
Photos: First look at Bruce Jacklin & Co's THE ODD COUPLE
by Jerri Shafer - Feb 9, 2022
The latest Alcove Dinner theater opens February 4 through March 5 with Neil Simons Broadway classic “The Odd Couple”, directed by Bruce Jacklin with major support from MTVarts. One of the most celebrated American comedies of all time, and considered Neil Simon’s most well-crafted and popular play, “The Odd Couple” is a hilarious take on the conflicts between the two friends when they attempt to live together.
“The Odd Couple,” opens February 4 and runs through March 5. Performances are every Friday and Saturday evening, with social hour beginning at 6:30 PM. There will be a matinee only on Saturday, February 19, at 2 PM. Matinee tickets can be purchased at the door. All other reservations and menu sections must be made on line at https://www.alcoverestaurant.com/
BWW Exclusive: A History of ANNIE on Broadway and Beyond
by Jeffrey Kare - Dec 2, 2021
Tonight, NBC will air its sixth live musical production. Following in the footsteps of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz, Hairspray, and Jesus Christ Superstar, the peacock network will be presenting Annie. Based on Harold Gray's comic strip titled Little Orphan Annie, this musical tells the story of a little orphan with equal measures of pluck and positivity who charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in New York City in the year 1933.
BWW Review: Slow Pacing and Poor Blocking Choices Hamper Consider This' THE ODD COUPLE
by Jeffrey Ellis - Jul 13, 2021
Consider This Theater Company’s production of The Odd Couple (now onstage through Sunday, July 18, at Mills-Pate Arts Center in Murfreesboro) on opening night showed great promise during Act One, only to be overwhelmed by poor blocking choices and lackluster pacing in Act Two (which, in reality, is a combination of acts two and three in the original script that first bowed on Broadway in 1965).
BWW Review: THE ODD COUPLE At Desert Stages Theatre
by Herbert Paine - Apr 14, 2021
Chemistry and balance! Two key ingredients that are (oddly!) in short supply in Scottsdale Desert Stages Theatre’s current production of THE ODD COUPLE, directed by Virginia Olivieri. Simon’s brilliant lines and zingers are there to be uttered, but the execution stumbles. The show runs through April 5th.
BWW Review: 3rd Act Superbly In Step with THE ODD COUPLE
by Adrienne Proctor - Aug 11, 2020
3rd Act Theatre Company opens their second season with Neil Simon's classic THE ODD COUPLE. This phsyical-comedy and quick dialogue-laden play has been popular with audiences in the tv, theatre, and movie world for over fifty years. The enduring story of roommates Felix and Oscar is at its heart a universal story of friendship.
BWW Review: THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION) at Monticello Opera House
by Paula Kiger - Jun 23, 2020
A pandemic may be an odd time to debut a play, but that's what The Perkins Players did. Their first play -- a comedy partially about the tensions that arise when two very different people live in close proximity to each other -- was performed in front of audience members who had very likely spent a significant part of the past few months being forced to live in close quarters with other humans (except for anyone who lives by themselves). Would that make audience members relate or yearn for an escape about anything except being trapped together in one apartment?