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Conversations With My Father Set in a Canal Street bar, Herb Gardner's semi-autobiographical memory play (the last of Gardner's plays to be staged on Broadway) primarily concerns the playwright's irascible bartender father (Peter Mayer), who presides... Full Article at St. Louis River Front Times
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Neil Simon was born in the Bronx in 1927. Herb Gardner was born in Brooklyn in 1934. In 1962 Simon's first play, Come Blow Your Horn, was in its fourteenth month on Broadway when Gardner debuted with A Thousand Clowns. Full Article at St. Louis River Front Times
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The title of Herb Gardner's play is kind of a misnomer. The character of Eddie Ross (nee Goldberg) doesn't converse as much as harangue the people around him. But, don't take this as a knock on the play; it's more of a clarification than anything. Full Article at Broadway World
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Boston University drama professor Sidney Friedman wasn't familiar with this Herb Gardner show until Kathleen Sitzer — artistic director of New Jewish Theatre and a friend since Friedman's days at Washington University — urged him to take a look. Now he' Full Article at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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For about three years, the Nibbledebuck was everywhere. "It was on 60-foot wide billboards," said Schlosser, now 78 and retired. "It was the first thing you saw when you came across the bridge. It was really something." Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat
