The Boys Next Door

April 29, 30 and May 1*, 2016 (Fri, Sat, Sun*) May 5, 6, 7, 2016 (Thu, Fri, Sat)

“The Boys Next Door” offers an insightful appreciation via comedy and drama of four men with intellectual and developmental disabilities who live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly “burned out,” young social worker named Jack.

Norman, who works in a doughnut shop, takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist. Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs about. Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecution complex; while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic, fantasizes that he is a golf pro.

Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where “little things” sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose.

"The Boys Next Door” moves the audience to an awareness of how many things in everyday life we take for granted…" —NY Times.

* The show contains some mature language.