Deferred dream comes true for actress Nan Tepper
\”I had been a student, wife, mother, news executive and caregiver, but I had always promised myself that one day I would be an actor.\”
\”I had been a student, wife, mother, news executive and caregiver, but I had always promised myself that one day I would be an actor.\”
Neil Simon has always laced his plays with aspects of his own life and, at age 75, he takes on mortality — specifically the mortality of a creative writer — in \”Rose and Walsh.\”
Judging by some reviews of the current play, such ignorance may be bliss, and to me and the rest of the audience, the sturdy underpinnings of the basic plot line easily carried au courant references to cell phones, e-mail and béarnaise sauce.
Never has Neil Simon dissected his marital specimen, genus Americana, with more astuteness and wit than in the world premiere of \”The Dinner Party\” at the Mark Taper Forum.