Actor frederick stroppel plays today

A comedy in two acts, produced off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre in The play, a lighthearted look at love and marriage in suburbia, centers on betrothed couple Chuck and Gail, and their best friends Jay and Bonnie, who disilike each other so intensely that their eventual romance is all but preordained.

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Stroppel is a lively and witty writer, and he knows how to create immensely likable characters. Witty and insightful, Stroppel, who has won several playwriting awards, has a sharp ear for dialogue and for the everyday concerns of people grappling with relationships. The plot is impressively shaped, and the situations here are so delightful, and so filled with funny jokes, that everything somehow seems fresh.

It's a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic odyssey that bounces our resilient hero from childhood stardom as a Wise Man to struggles in NYC to the glamour of Hollywood and back again, meeting a rogues gallery of pompous directors, parasitic agents, narcissistic actresses and desperate screenwriters along the way. The playwright exhibits insight and wit, and mines a plethora of hilarious satiric gems On the night of the full moon, just before Halloween, a serial killer is on the loose, and the denizens of a neighborhood bar speculate on where he or she might strike next.

Enter a Stranger, who becomes the mirror of all their fears and prejudices, and things get bloody very fast. Newsday: "Delicious noir An evening worthy of Stephen King. The spirited banter between the great men is chock-full of clever witticisms" - Broadway World. Set in present-day New York City, it tells the story of real-estate magnate Gabe Eisenstein, his fun-loving wife Rosalinda, and their various indiscretions with tenors, police commissioners and downtown hipsters.

There is an overriding wit at work, In their hilarious confrontation we see our own mistakes in long-term love relationships as well as the errors everyone around us makes.