Simon’s ‘Lost In Yonkers’ an ultimate dysfunctional family tale

Published October 27, 2009 4:00am ET



 

If you go
“Lost in Yonkers”
Where: Theater J, Jewish Community Center, 1529 16 St. NW
When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday; 8 p.m. Saturday; 3 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday; Tuesday performances at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10, 17, 24; Matinees: noon Oct. 28 and Nov. 4 and 2 p.m. Nov. 27; no evening performance Oct. 28 or Nov. 26; through Nov. 29
Info: $30-$55 (discounts available); 800-494-8497; theaterj.org

Neil Simon is an undisputed master of comedy, but in some of his plays there are such poignant emotional elements — when Simon writes of nostalgia for the past or the importance of family, for instance — that his funny lines and comic scenarios seem to be mere byproducts in the work of a first-rate, serious dramatist.

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