There’s a special snap in the air when a Neil Simon comedy hits the board — a kind of crisp, city-night electricity that says, “relax, you’re in the hands of a pro.”

In 1968, “Plaza Suite” opened on Broadway with George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton and promptly reminded America that nobody mapped the topography of marriage — the bruises and the balm — quite like Simon. Three short plays, one legendary room at New York’s Plaza Hotel, and a parade of lovers, liars, dreamers, and second-chancers.

The furniture doesn’t move, but the human heart does.

Long Beach Playhouse leans into that legacy through Saturday, Nov. 29, with a production that feels tailor-made for our season of gratitude. “Plaza Suite” plants us in Suite 719 for three distinct tales: First, a couple revisiting their honey

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