Meteor Shower NYC Reviews and Tickets

“To no one’s surprise, Benanti sparkles, as does the play, and like the stars, comets, and meteors shooting through space above us reflecting back brilliant light, ‘Meteor Shower’ is creating a dazzling display nightly. Don’t miss the chance...Everyone wins in Martin’s play...The cast delivers hilarious line after line in this trippy new play. But in actuality, we are the true winners of this night, happily taking in each deliciously wicked moment and playful asides.”
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"Just when the plot starts to serve the characters with a faint inkling of depth, it falters...Director Zaks moves the piece along at a quick pace and certainly provides a sleek production that is pleasant enough to watch...The stellar cast is fine and probably makes the evening palpable by adhering to the slick direction...They are able to overcome the erratic and implausible script by Martin. It is merely an evening of amusement where the jokes are forgotten as fast as they are delivered."
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“No one on stage ever acts like a real human being. What they say and what they do always feels simply in service of Martin’s seemingly unquenchable desire to make the audience roar back their heads or cover their mouths...Fortunately, director Zaks has cannily cast four performers who are able to accomplish this task...Still, like the meteor shower we witness, Martin’s play is always in danger of crashing to the ground."
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“The sharply contrasting couples spend the evening in a series of ludicrously absurdist encounters, made even odder by their being repeated in different variations, with a worm-turns twist ending the proceedings…In all design respects, the production displays a patina of…Broadway polish…That polish, though, is dimmed not only by the innocuous script but by the exaggerated acting…which operates on the principle that more is more, encouraging the actors to milk their shtick to the last drop.”
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“Martin enlists four phenomenal performers...for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy sketch about marriage that is an uneasy stew of Neil Simon and Edward Albee, but falls short of either...A cloudburst of laugh lines lasting only about 80 minutes, but its non-sequiturs and silliness turn tedious in a remarkably short time...The four talented comic actors make sure that every joke that can land does land, even when it wouldn’t in other hands.”
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“Though its just 80 minutes long, the play’s comedic amusements become intermittent — even bordering on the unappealing. The audience might wince at some of the credulity-testing moments and events. Credit the actors for never resisting Martin’s demands...’Meteor Shower’ doesn’t arrive from outer space. Despite its stars, however, the play still somewhat burns up in the atmosphere.”
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“Steve Martin’s lump of sight gags, one-liners and situation comedy streaks toward Broadway...Jerry Zaks, the director, angles for yuks throughout, cold-shouldering sense or consistency...Sure, there are laughs to be had, some of them wonderfully raunchy, but there’s an incessant sense that while 'Meteor Shower' may occasionally be a hoot, it is never really a play. It’s a comedy sketch that resets when it doesn’t know how to end, flaming out long before it hits the Booth stage.”
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“Martin has taken what might have made a good story for one of his New Yorker ‘Shouts & Murmurs’ columns and turned it into a full-length play...Would be consistently hilarious if the comedy could be watched in the time it takes to read one of his New Yorker columns. The other 60 or so minutes of Martin’s new play is little more than set-up and filler, often repeated...Zaks has no choice but to direct his ensemble of four to deliver very broad performances.”
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