Neil Simon

Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the life of Brighton Beach Memoirs's author, the recently departed Neil Simon.

in a crowded, lower middle class Brooklyn walk-up

“Brighton Beach Memoirs” is Neil Simon’s autobiographical portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with Neil Simon's family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up.

one of America ’s most cherished plays

Brighton Beach Memoirs is the first installment in Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical Eugene Jerome trilogy (which includes the plays Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound) and is one of America’s most cherished plays.

Yelena Akhtiorskaya

In striking, arresting prose loaded with fresh and inventive turns of phrase, Yelena Akhtiorskaya has written the first great novel of Brighton Beach: a searing portrait of hope and ambition and a profound exploration of the power and limits of language itself and language's ability to make connections across cultures and generations.

the perfect answer to how Neil Simon realized Sacks had natural talent for writing comedy

Brighton Beach Memoirs is the perfect answer to how Neil Simon realized Sacks had natural talent for writing comedy.

one of Simon’s autobiographical plays, part of Simon's Eugene Trilogy

Brighton Beach Memoirs is one of Simon’s autobiographical plays, part of Simon's Eugene Trilogy, that also include Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.

part of Simon’s “Eugene Trilogy, ” the story of Eugene Jerome from adolescence through Simon's early writing career

Brighton Beach Memoirs is part of Simon’s “Eugene Trilogy,” the story of Eugene Jerome from adolescence through Simon's early writing career.

with hilarious insight and through the eyes of Eugene Morris Jerome, the fictional stand-in for the boy deep affection who would become Neil Simon

Set in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Brighton Beach Memoirs is told with hilarious insight and deep affection through the eyes of Eugene Morris Jerome, the fictional stand-in for the boy who would become Neil Simon.

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John Roman Baker, poet, playwright and novelist, spent John Roman Baker's childhood and much of John Roman Baker's adult life in Brighton

the first play of three Simon , wrote about Eugene Jeromemoving on to MFA directing candidate Jonathan Hunt-Sell's military years in Biloxi Blues and the beginnings of MFA directing candidate Jonathan Hunt-Sell's comedy career in Broadway Bound

Brighton Beach Memoirs is the first play of three Simon wrote about Eugene Jerome, moving on to MFA directing candidate Jonathan Hunt-Sell's military years in Biloxi Blues and the beginnings of MFA directing candidate Jonathan Hunt-Sell's comedy career in Broadway Bound.

of Eugene Jerome, a young man who desires to be a writer and starts with what Eugene Jerome knows best, Eugene Jerome's own downtrodden family

“Brighton Beach Memoirs” tells the story of Eugene Jerome, a young man who desires to be a writer and starts with what Eugene Jerome knows best, Eugene Jerome's own downtrodden family.

J. Michael Trautmann

Yet Simon transcended J. Michael Trautmann's self-imposed limitations beautifully in the 1980s when J. Michael Trautmann wrote a trilogy of autobiographical plays, launched with Brighton Beach Memoirs.

a trilogy of autobiographical plays , launched with Brighton Beach Memoirs

Yet Simon transcended J. Michael Trautmann's self-imposed limitations beautifully in the 1980s when J. Michael Trautmann wrote a trilogy of autobiographical plays, launched with Brighton Beach Memoirs.

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On June 29, 1983, the opening night of American playwright Neil Simon‘s Brighton Beach Memoirs, the theater was renamed in Herbert J. Krapp's honor.

Broderick starred in another acclaimed play—

In 1983, Broderick starred in another acclaimed play—Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, earning American actor Matthew Broderickthe accolade of the youngest recipient of the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, which American actor Matthew Broderickcan claim to this day.

Benjamin Franklin

In the Eighties Benjamin Franklin wrote such plays as Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, and Rumours.

the story of a teenager called Eugene Morris Jerome and Jack Klugman's family from Brooklyn New York circa 1937

Brighton Beach Memoirs tells the story of a teenager called Eugene Morris Jerome and Jack Klugman's family from Brooklyn New York circa 1937.

William Latham

William Latham wrote 'Brighton Beach' in 1954, and Gershwin is one of William Latham's most popular marches and one of the band's favorites.

Slingsby Bethel

Contemporaries variously attributed the Memoirs to Slingsby Bethel, John Phillips (Milton's nephew), Thomas Percival, and John Toland.

Wilmot Maxwell Tobey

In Mr. Wilmot Maxwell Tobey's later years, Mr. Tobey worked on this collection of Brighton history.