‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ at Adelphi

Grace McQuade

Adelphi University’s talented theatre students will perform “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” a semi-autobiographical comedy by Neil Simon, under the direction of J.J. O’Neil.

The performance runs from March 28 to April 2 in the Olmsted Theatre at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center located at 1 South Ave. in Garden City.

This production of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” is generously sponsored by Jack Levande.

Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, narrates his life as a young teen in 1937, where he lives with his family in a rented house in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley.

With his widowed Aunt Blanche and her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters thrown into the mix, you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style.

This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states “if you didn’t have a problem, you wouldn’t be living here.”

The 2 p.m. performance of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” on Saturday, April 1, will be open-captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing patrons.

Open captioning is made possible through Adelphi’s Center for Health Innovation.

Tickets are currently on sale and are priced at $25, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni.

Information is available at the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu.

Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m.

The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances.

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