South Bend Civic Theatre to Present LOST IN YONKERS in January
By: Tyler Peterson Dec. 12, 2014
South Bend Civic Theatre presents Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning comedy Lost in Yonkers January 9-25, 2015 in the Warner Theatre, 403 N Main Street in South Bend. Hailed as "the best play Neil Simon ever wrote" - New York Post, Lost in Yonkers tells the funny and poignant story of Jay and Arty, two teenage boys in 1942. When their recently widowed father has to take a travelling sales job, he leaves his sons to their Grandmother in Yonkers. The boys find life challenging and bewildering around their eccentric relatives: strict German immigrant Grandma Kurnitz, child-like Aunt Bella, and mobster Uncle Louie. Simon's play explores the hardship, pain, humor and love of these richly drawn characters.
Scot Shepley directs Tucker Curtis, Noah Hickey, Noah Johnson, Mary Ann Moran, Crystal Ryan, Casey St. Aubin, and April Sellers.
Neil Simon's play has been lauded by critics as "... 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 for Simon, a silent laughter that doesn't explode into a yuk but implodes straight into your heart" - Newsweek.
Reserved tickets are $21 with performances at 7:30 PM Wednesday through Saturday and 2:00 PM Sundays. For tickets, call the SBCT Box Office at 574-234-1112 or online at sbct.org.
SBCT's Warner Theatre Series is sponsored by Nyloncraft and the show sponsor for Lost in Yonkers is Schindler, Olson, and Currey.
South Bend Civic Theatre, an award-winning and nationally ranked theatre, is the oldest continuously operating community theatre company in the South Bend/Mishawaka area. Founded in 1957, it staged most of its productions from 1968 to 2007 at The Firehouse, a local historic landmark located at 701 Portage Ave., in the city's historic Park Avenue neighborhood. Since 2007, SBCT's 50th Anniversary year, SBCT's productions are held in their state-of-the-art theatre located at 403 N. Main St. SBCT features the 209 seat Wilson Theatre, flexible seating "black-box" Warner Theatre and cabaret style configured Firehouse Theatre.
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