Jake’s Women is a 1992 play by Neil Simon. The play centers on Jake, an author with psychosis. The main character speaks to several of the women he is familiar with in life and in his imagination as he exercises to salvage his marriage. A television movie version of the play, with Alan Alda in the role of the writer, was produced for television in 1996.Under the direction of Jack O’Brien, Shake’s Women debuted at the Old Globe Theatre in March 1990 and ran through April. Peter Coyote played the lead. Simon says he rewrote “70 percent” after the production ended, and a new director named Gene Saks replaced Jake with Alan Alda.
