California Suite

Neil Simon at his most hu-mane, compassionate best. It’s a humorous confection divided into four parts. Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadelphia, Visitors from London, and Visitors from Chi-cago. In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months. The badinage flies fast and furious but Hannah’s well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold. The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at the suite, catching her husband “enflagrante delicto” with a drunken hooker. Visitors from London brings a British star as Academy Award nomi-nee. Diana returns from the ceremony empty-handed to husband Sidney whose homosexuality brings no comfort tonight. The Visitors from Chicago are two couples ending a disastrous vacation they should nothave shared.