{"id":26488,"date":"2024-04-09T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=26488"},"modified":"2024-04-09T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:37:13","slug":"marshall-theatre-students-to-present-brighton-beach-memoirs-by-neil-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/marshall-theatre-students-to-present-brighton-beach-memoirs-by-neil-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall theatre students to present \u2018Brighton Beach Memoirs\u2019 by Neil Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Marshall University\u2019s School of Theatre and Dance will present the Neil Simon play \u201cBrighton Beach Memoirs\u201d at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, through Saturday, April 13, in the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The play is a coming-of-age comedy about Eugene Morris Jerome, a Jewish teenager growing up in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937 and is the first in a trilogy of Simon\u2019s plays that also includes \u201cBiloxi Blues\u201d and \u201cBroadway Bound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a show that speaks to anyone who remembers what it&#8217;s like to come of age at the onset of extraordinary times and how family bonds last a lifetime,\u201d said Samuel Kincaid, box office and public relations manager for the School of Theatre and Dance.<\/p>\n<p>The play is directed by Marshall University School of Theatre alumnus T. Michael Murdock, who is also the co-founder and artistic director of The Alchemy Theatre in Huntington.\u00a0 \u00a0The play stars George Kinley as Eugene; Camden Gleason as Stanley; Jimi Lawson as Jack; Samantha Phalen as Kate; Nikki Riniti as Blanche; Eliza Aulick as Nora and Kate Kennedy as Laurie.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available at the door and by contacting 304-696-ARTS. They are free for Marshall students with a valid MU ID. They are $22 general admission and $15 for seniors aged 60 and older and Marshall employees. The production is sponsored by the School of Theatre and Dance in the College of Arts and Media.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University\u2019s School of Theatre and Dance will present the Neil Simon play \u201cBrighton Beach Memoirs\u201d at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, through Saturday, April 13, in the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse. The play is a coming-of-age comedy about Eugene Morris Jerome, a Jewish teenager growing up in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937 and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cam","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26490,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26488\/revisions\/26490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}