NY Theatre

When the curtain goes up on the revival of “The Odd Couple,” Neil Simon’s 1965 comedy, at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, you see the real stars of the production - Rob Bartlett, Brad Garrett and Lee Wilkof - playing a heated game of poker When the curtain goes up on the revival of “The Odd Couple,” Neil Simon’s 1965 comedy, at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, you see the real stars of the production - Rob Bartlett, Brad Garrett and Lee Wilkof - playing a heated game of poker. Unless you have spent the last year in Lhasa, you know that the reason for this revival was to reteam Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick of “The Producers” in the roles of the slob Oscar and the finicky Felix, forced to become roommates by their impending divorces.