HART’s next production is one of the most celebrated comedies by Broadway’s Neil Simon.   “Lost in Yonkers,” which will run Aug. 17 to 26 at the Performing Arts Center in Waynesville, debuted at the Richard Rogers Theater in February 1991 and won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award, marking the high point in Simon’s career.

Simon is perhaps America’s most underrated playwright. He is also by far the most successful. His career began during the golden age of television, writing for Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows,” and the “Phil Silvers Show,” among others.  On Caesar’s show his collaborators were Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. Each would go on to make major contributions to the world of comedy and the world of entertainment, Allen in film, Brooks in film and with “The Producers” ...