Berkshire on Stage

by Macey Levin Neil Simon, now 91 years old, is one of the premier comic playwrights of the American theatre.  The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, California Suite, Last of the red Hot Lovers, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys,  Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, and more……

by Macey Levin Cole Porter’s music has been part of the American Song Book since 1915 beginning with a little-known show Hands Up.  His breakthrough came in 1929 with Fifty Milllion Frenchmen but his place in the American Musical Theatre was guaranteed with Anything Goes in 1934 which brought stardom…