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The Providence players conclude their 20^th anniversary season with the Neil Simon comedy, California Suite, Simon’s humorous confection in four separate comedy playlets with one common thread. Four couples from different cities travel to California over the course of a year and stay in the same Beverly Hills Hotel suite, bringing their problems, anxieties and comic marital dilemmas with them.

In “The Visitor From New York,” Hannah loves living in New York, while her ex-husband, Billy, loves L.A. Can two happily divorced parents raise their only daughter while living 3,000 miles apart? “The Visitor from Philadelphia” finds Marvin waking up in the suite with both a hangover and a young woman he doesn’t know beside him in bed, soon followed by the arrival of his wife. In “The Visitors from London,” actress Diana loses the Oscar to another woman and her husband to another man on the same night. And finally, four best friends are enjoying a dream vacation together in “The Visitors from Chicago” — until a highly competitive tennis match turns friend to enemy.

In California Suite, Simon is at his most humane and compassionate, and the banter flies fast and furious in this popular comedy. The New York Times said “Mr. Simon is writing at his ebullient best…[He] makes us laugh so effortlessly.”