Ideation NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (119)
See it if you work in consulting or aspiring to do that, want to get a glimpse of how corporations work, like conspiracy theories.
Don't see it if you hate corporate culture, models and enigmas.
See it if You enjoy dark thought provoking comedies and satire. Well written and acted works, or you are a genocidal maniac looking for ideas
Don't see it if You are easily offended. Or have no sense of humor.
See it if You enjoy puzzles and care about human rights
Don't see it if You hate fun or feel threatened by smart dialogue and brilliant acting
See it if Conspiracy theories
Don't see it if Straightforward plots
See it if you're into "sitting on the edge of your seat drama" with terrific acting, writing, and chair throwing.
Don't see it if no comment... except that the third act seemed a little rushed.
See it if you have a love-hate relationship with corporate consultants and whiteboards! ;-)
Don't see it if you can't handle thought provoking drama.
See it if You are concerned about business ethics in America today!
Don't see it if You are looking for special effects.
See it if you want to see an absorbing play thats premise seems farfetched, but it absolutely realistic. Fabulous!
Don't see it if you prefer musicals.
Critic Reviews (30)
"Aaron Loeb’s clever and insightful play, sharply directed by Josh Costello on Bill English’s expressively bare set, is an on-the-nose send-up of today’s corporate culture. In 'Ideation,' that all too pervasive culture, with its ethics of 'take no prisoners' and 'the end justifies the means,' creates a cocktail of laugh-out-loud hilarity, chased with the queasy realization that the more things in our glittering, vicious world change, the more they stay the same."
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"Part of the magic of this production is the manner in which Loeb builds tension. There is no music. No special effects. And no dramatic scene changes. Words (and lots of them), the calculation of probabilities using the whiteboard as a sixth actor, and an unsettling 'trust no one' mantra lead our intrepid consultants down an increasingly slippery slope of delusion...It would be hard to imagine this play working in anything, but the most capable hands. Fortunately, this cast is absolutely stellar."
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"Played out on Alicia Griffiths’ smart, black-and-chrome conference room set, with actors this good, Loeb’s play simply soars, leaving the audience disconcertingly up in the air. Which is definitely the way it is."
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"I’ve never seen anything like this stage play. Its scope and grandeur is amazing and magnificent. I’m still thinking about it. Once in a decade an audience gets raw challenges. They sure do it here. The director absolutely knows how to create emotion. This cat-and-mouse-bare-knuckle play keeps you on the edge of your seat. IT’S ELECTRIFYING!"
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"Playwright Aaron Loeb insists he’s never watched 'The Outer Limits' but someone must be transmitting the show into a special receiver hidden in his dental work while he sleeps, because the tone is spot-on...Though sometimes a bit slight, 'Ideation' is thoughtful, funny, snappy and ironic comedy of exactly the stripe you want in a small theater setting."
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"In this case, Costello and Loeb’s ambition may have caused them to stretch too far, because 'Ideation' basically yields 90 minutes of thinly spread, disjointed ideas, never leading to much in the way of fruition...'Ideation' poses some interesting questions about human nature. But mostly, the play is repetitive when trying to generate interest, stale when trying for humor and cheesy when trying to be provocative."
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