Greensburg Civic Theatre Opens ‘The Sunshine Boys’; ‘Savage Lands: A Colonial Comedy Opens at Duquesne (Thurs., 2/20/20)

1) Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple is perhaps the best-known play about two men literally at odds with one another, but Simon also wrote one that many people like even better, The Sunshine Boys. The “boys” are two elderly guys who once had a vaudeville act in which they were best buddies on stage but mutually hostile in real life. When a TV special brings them together for a late-life reunion, it doesn’t go smoothly. Greensburg Civic Theatre performs The Sunshine Boys at Greensburg Garden & Civic Center. 8 p.m. Runs through February 22. 951 Old Salem Rd., Greensburg. (MV)

2)  As settlers from the British Isles moved across North America in colonial times, clashes with the people who’d been there since time immemorial were understandably common, and no laughing matter. But a new play by Pittsburgh-based writer Timothy Ruppert imagines a humorous situation. A woman among the newcomers finds that her husband has been abducted by the Mohawks … or, has he run off with another woman? … and then the plot thickens. The Duquesne University Red Masquers present Ruppert’s Savage Lands: A Colonial Comedy in the Genesius Theater on campus. 8 p.m. Perfromances continue through February 29. 1225 Seitz St., Uptown. (MV)

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