The Costa Mesa Playhouse's 44th season continues with Tony® and Pulitzer Prize-winner Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical examination of dysfunctional relationships between the sexes, JAKE'S WOMEN. The show plays thru Feb. 28.
America's most successful playwright used his own troubled marital history as the basis for this wildly comic and moving study of successful but narcissistic writer Jake, who, still obsessed with the idyllic first wife who died years earlier, now faces a marital crisis with his second wife by conjuring up a series of imaginary encounters with the important women in his life, past and present, including both wives, his daughter both as a child and the young woman she is now, his boisterous sister, and his less-than-supportive analyst. Jake is a man lost in the most terrifying place a writer can imagine—his own mind.
The play is directed by Michael Dale Brown, who last helmed The Playhouse's critically acclaimed 2009 production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Lakewood resident John Sturgeon plays Jake in his second Costa Mesa role, having appeared there previously in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. He has been a mainstay at Long Beach's Found Theatre for the last decade. Another Found Theatre regular, Costa Mesa resident Kay Richey, who plays Jake's acerbic sister, has performed several times at The Playhouse, most recently in Sordid Lives.Reservations can be made on-line at www.costamesaplayhouse.org or by calling 949-650-5269. The Playhouse is located at 661 Hamilton Street in Costa Mesa.
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