The Comeuppance
Closed 2h 10m
The Comeuppance
77%
77%
(139 Ratings)
Positive
79%
Mixed
14%
Negative
7%
Members say
Absorbing, Great acting, Great writing, Ambitious, Clever

About the Show

A group of friends reconvenes to catch up before their 20th high school reunion.

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Critic Reviews (14)

The New York Times
June 5th, 2023

CRITIC’S PICK: "'The Comeuppance' is a richer and fully mature work...You shiver as you realize, yes, Death comes for everyone eventually, but in the meantime, he is robbing us daily."
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New York Theatre Guide
June 6th, 2023

" 'The Comeuppance' is in some ways a beautiful meditation on millennial angst and in other ways an unfinished and wavering examination of it. At least it presents its questions in a visually interesting, genre-bending manner, with a reminder that Death becomes all of us."
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New York Magazine / Vulture
June 5th, 2023

"It makes a regular event seem as grand and sepulchral as a mass, and it also makes it all the more essential. We need this everyday theater. To understand each other, we have to gather in the dark."
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Theatermania
June 5th, 2023

"Eric Ting directs 'The Comeuppance' with a keen sense of dynamics, the peaks and valleys of conflict and the pregnant power of a wordless stare. It partially compensates for a shaggy script that all too often indulges in a woe-is-me accounting of the various trials and tribulations this age group has been made to endure"
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Lighting & Sound America
June 8th, 2023

"Under Eric Ting's sure-handed direction, The Comeuppance emerges as both a gripping personal drama and an acute portrait of a generation suffering mental fatigue from a nonstop parade of traumas… Focusing on a narrow group of characters, he nevertheless gets at what this country has endured in the twenty-first century, in the process illuminating the madness of recent times."
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Talkin' Broadway
June 6th, 2023

"The voice of death reinhabits for its terminal narrative, an epilogical report of what the future holds post-reunion...This punctuating nonverbal dramatization of connection and disconnection overcomes us in the play's wake of words, plunging us into, or delivering us back from, solitude."
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New York Stage Review
June 5th, 2023

"The plot trajectory has realism veering into heightened drama careening into melodrama...Definitely not incidentally, 'The Comeuppance' features another theatrical element overlooked here until right now."
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New York Stage Review
June 5th, 2023

"Director Eric Ting deftly guides a superb cast, all of whom make the most of their carefully calibrated roles. This reunion — depth-charged like most — unfolds in its own style (blessedly free of cliché) and at its own pace. One guarantee: Those 130 minutes will race by."
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