AHS play: Brighton Beach

Neil Simon’s hilarious play “Brighton Beach Memoirs” will be staged by the Arcadia High School drama department in the Little Theatre at 7 p.m. Tuesday – Saturday January 12-16.

Tickets are available by clicking this AHS drama department website.

(More information follows the two-minute video below featuring rehearsal footage and interviews with the cast.)

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“Brighton Beach Memoirs” is Simon’s portrait of an American family in the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. Eugene Jerome is an aspiring writer and baseball player, whose adolescent insights about his family, the Great Depression and growing up are alternately hysterical and touching. The resulting coming-of-age story is an affectionate, thoroughly entertaining lesson in overcoming hard times with grace, warmth and humor.