Jerry Mayer's ALMOST PERFECT Extends at Santa Monica Playhouse

Twenty-nine years after it premiered, playwright Jerry Mayer's "funny, touching and true-to-heart" (Variety) hit comedy ALMOST PERFECT returns to Santa Monica Playhouse as part of the Playhouse's three-year Jerry Mayer-a-thon, reuniting Mayer with director Chris DeCarlo who directed the successful 20th anniversary production of Mayer's acclaimed comedy Aspirin & ELEPHANTS (Critics' Pick, LA TIMES). Extended by popular demand, the show is now playing weekends through August 23, 2015.

ALMOST PERFECT is recommended viewing for anyone who is in or would like to be in relationship.

Buddy falls for the perfect girl of his dreams. One small problem... he's married to Jenny. We watch his hilarious, guilt-ridden affair till he finally realizes his perfect dream girl is Jenny, his wife. "Its male idiocy that get savaged most by author Mayer who does such a remarkable job, in fact, that the men in the audience are laughing their heads off even as they're being gutted," says The Good Life.

"Almost Perfect" is "Almost Perfect!" agree Weekly Variety, Drama-Logue, The Outlook, News & Reviews, Park La Brea News and the B'nai B'rith Messenger.

Playwright Jerry Mayer has had an impressive career in television, writing and producing such prized shows as M*A*S*H, The Bob Newhart Show, All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Facts of Life and five Mitzi Gaynor's TV Specials, plus her famous Las Vegas Act. His award-winning plays and musicals, notably Aspirin & ELEPHANTS, A Love Affair, Killjoy, 2Across, Black & Bluestein, Dietrich and Chevalier, and You Haven't Changed a Bit and Other Lies all premiered in Los Angeles theaters and have appeared successfully in New York City (Off Broadway) and in hundreds of theatres locally, nationally and internationally. The German translation of Aspirin & ELEPHANTS just opened in Hamburg.

Veteran Director Chris DeCarlo's most recent projects include the world premieres of Arnold Schulman's Sleeping Ugly, Lisa Phillips Visca's Raise Me Up and Turning Thirty, and the LA Times Critic's Choice productions of Doug Knott's Last of the Knotts and Mayer's Aspirin & ELEPHANTS. Says DeCarlo "Experiencing a Jerry Mayer play brings us that much closer to the realization that no matter how serious life may appear, someone is always laughing. It might as well be us."

ALMOST PERFECT features Ryan Driscoll* (Poop Notice - series regular, House M.D., Aspirin & ELEPHANTS); Dan Gilvezan* (The Transformers, Parks and Recreation, Desperate Housewives); Emmy-award winner Barbara Keegan* (NCIS: Los Angeles, Saving Mr. Banks,); Michael Marinaccio*(off Broadway: Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding, Richard III; Aspirin & ELEPHANTS); Lucy Rayner* (English 20, Happy Hour, Bolero); and Wayne Roberts(NCIS, The Fighting Kind, The Last Hand).

ALMOST PERFECT plays Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 3:30 pm through August 23. Tickets are online at SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com or (310) 394-9779 ext. 1.

The Other Space at Santa Monica Playhouse is at 1211 4th Street in the heart of downtown Santa Monica. Convenient Parking is located directly across the street in city lot #1. By public transportation: take the Santa Monica Blue Bus or the LA Metro Rapid #720 and exit at 4th and Wilshire

Santa Monica Playhouse is supported in part by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, by the City of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Arts Commission and by U.S. Bank.