The Odd Couple News

Accomplished actors Gordon McConnell, front, and Avi Hoffman are the last two surviving Jews in Kabul and worst enemies.

STAGE AND SCREEN actor Jack Stauffer spent most of his career in Los Angeles and New York, so it's no surprise that when he read about a potential part with Antioch's Hapgood Theatre Company that he had no idea where the riverside community was.

If you're quick, there's still time to catch a classic Neil Simon comedy, writes Lynda Smart .

Main American actor known for his rumpled face, nasal bray, and razor-sharp timing.

The Odd Couple takes the stage this weekend downtown at the Neville Center for the Performing Arts.

Everyone knows Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau made the film roles of Felix and Oscar their own but wasn't it a tall order expecting Jacqui Golding and Chrystalla Spire as Olive and Florence to do the same on the local stage? Well they did it - both women rise to the challenge of their roles and give the best performances I have seen from either of ...

1927 Eddie Cantor headlines the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

I'm a great believer in laughter. The more uninhibited it is, the sillier and the zanier, the better.

Syston: The Odd Couple a play by Neil Simon and made famous as a film with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon was then rewritten in a female version resulting in one of the funniest comedies for women seen on the stage.

Although primarily a renowned stage actress Carole Shelley is probably best recalled by non-theater goers as Gwendolyn Pigeon, one of the upstairs neighbor sisters Oscar Madison wants to bed in "The Odd Couple". It was.... Although primarily a renowned stage actress Carole Shelley is probably best recalled by non-theater goers as Gwendolyn Pigeon, ...

On August 5th, 2009, Neil Simon 's classic comedy The Odd Couple rounds off the summer season at the Ivoryton Playhouse.

Anybody who's a fan of television, stage or Neil Simon is familiar with Oscar Madison and Felix Unger.

Rob McClure, left, and David Ludwig play mismatched roommates Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, respectively, in the Drayton Entertainment production "The Odd Couple." The comedy runs from June 24 to July 11 at the King's Wharf Theatre in Penetanguishene.

HEBDEN Bridge Little Theatre's summer production is Neil Simon's comedy 'The Odd Couple' which, after a long run as a smash hit on Broadway became a very successful film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in the lead roles.

TWO classic works are being staged in Calderdale over the next week. Halifax Thespians are presenting Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie at The Playhouse, King Cross Street, Halifax, tomorrow and from Monday to next Saturday, when there will be a 2.30pm matinee.

Published: Monday, June 8, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 11:27 p.m. Shands HealthCare and Solantic.

This week we're looking at DVD box sets about a path-breaking TV producer, a memorable rock festival and one of America's most beloved actors.

It has long been a critical commonplace to describe Jack Lemmon as the everyman of American film, the least glamorous of great movie stars.

There's a lot of hemming and hawing over The Death of the Newspaper these days. Not that there shouldn't be.

While proper attribution seems almost impossible to pin down, it is a notorious axiom among theater folk that "dying is easy, comedy is hard." And one of the funny, and hard, things about comedy is that it's so difficult to define all the different components that make it work.