Lost in Yonkers

by Neil Simon

Published 21 January 1992
Comic Drama / Casting: 4m, 3f / Interior Scenery

Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award

By America's great comic playwright, this memory play is set in a Yonkers in 1942. The hit Broadway production featured Irene Worth, Mercedes Ruehl and Kevin Spacey in award-winning performances. Bella, is 35-years-old, mentally challenged and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz . As the play opens, ne'r do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep.