Audiences have loved – Critics have praised

Last Chance Final Performances – This Audience Favorite Closes Saturday Night June 16, 2018

Closing Weekend Video Preview

 

“Folks, they’re good.  This play is well done.  We laughed hard, a lot.  Superior acting, perfectly directed and a great trip down memory lane for a lot of us who came to see it.  Get tickets to see this.  You’ll truly love it as much as we did.” – Audience Member 

“If You’re in the Mood to Laugh, You’ve Come to the right Hotel”

The Falls Church News Press says:  “California Suite Offers Up A Character-Driven Treat”

Laughed so hard I cried!! Great Play! – Audience Member

Connection Newspapers David Siegel calls PPF’s Production of
Neil Simon’s California Suite “Masterful Comedy”

I thought that your California Suite production was superb.
Brilliant casting, directing, acting, set, lighting.
Broadway quality! – Audience Member

The Providence Players, an award-winning, non-profit, all-volunteer community theater troupe serving Northern Virginia and the DC Metropolitan area, closes its 20th anniversary season with the Neil Simon comedy, California Suite.  The production runs through June 16th at the beautiful and historic, James Lee Community Center Theater at 2855 Annandale Road in Falls Church, Virginia.

 

“If You’re in the Mood to Laugh,

You’ve Come to the Right Hotel”

 

THE PLAY

California Suite is Neil 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. 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.”

In Visitor from New York, a divorced couple, Bill and Hannah Warren, have met in the suite in order to discuss who will get custody of their teenage daughter.

In Visitor from Philadelphia, Marvin Michaels finds himself in a very difficult position when his wife Millie comes to meet him in the suite.

In Visitors from London, Sidney and Diana Nichols are a couple from London who have rented the suite to attend the Academy Awards.

The Visitors from Chicago are two affluent couples who are best friends and have come to Beverly Hills for a vacation which takes a turn for the worst after a mixed doubles tennis match.

THE CAST

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The Cast of the Providence Players Production of California Suite

Visitors from New York
Ia Ioannidou as Hannah Warren
Chris Persil as William Warren

Visitors from Philadelphia
Dave Wright as Marvin Michaels
Liz Mykietyn as Millie Michaels
Wynter Chatman as Bunny

Visitors from London
Janet Kohler Dueweke as Diana Nichols
Allen McRae as Sidney Nichols

Visitors from Chicago
Lou Lehrman as Mort Hollander
Allison Turkel as Beth Hollander
Mario Font as Stu Franklyn
Laura Champe Mitchell as Gert Franklyn