Reviewed by David Rooney
Hats off to the farsighted producers of "The Neil Simon Plays" for taking a risk on their choice of director. While David Cromer's most recent New York hits, <cite>Adding Machine</cite> and <cite>Our Town</cite>, mined piercing depths in timeworn texts, they did so in an austere presentational style that seemed a million miles from the warm-hearted humor of <cite>Brighton Beach Memoirs</cite>. The first installment o…