BWW Review: THE ODD COUPLE At Desert Stages Theatre
In a 1996 interview with NPR's Terry Gross, Neil Simon spoke about the imbalance between his desire for leisure time and his need to write: "I'm my own odd couple," he said. (Simon died at the age of 91 in August 2018.) Simon's tilt toward playwriting inured to the benefit of generations of audiences in the thousands of laughs he generated with timeless comedies among which THE ODD COUPLE endures (arguably) at the top of the list. Since its 1965 premiere on Broadway, the classic confrontation between two polar opposites ~ the iconic characters of the hypochondriac stickler for order and neat...