Photo Flash: Neil Simon at the Guthrie Theater

On October 8th, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon, whose many plays include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple and Brighton Beach Memoirs, appeared at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis for the theatre's "In Conversation" series.

Simon joined Director Joe Dowling for an "In Conversation" on the Wurtele Thrust Stage, where Simon's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Lost in Yonkers, directed by Gary Gisselman, is playing through November 12. Simon has had dozens of plays and nearly as many major motion pictures produced. He has garnered more Academy and Tony nominations than any other writer and is the only playwright to have four Broadway productions running simultaneously.

"Rich in the comedy for which its author is famous, Lost in Yonkers tells the touching story of an eccentric New York family in crisis in the summer of 1942. As only he can, Simon grapples with a most painful reality — what happens to children in the absence of love — in his droll yet heartfelt way," state Guthrie notes.

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Photos by George Byron Griffiths

Neil Simon and his wife Elaine Joyce Simon with the cast of Lost in Yonkers

Guthrie Artistic Director Joe Dowling and Neil Simon in an "In Conversation" on stage