The Comeuppance NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (139)
See it if The best play we will have this year
Don't see it if You hate theater
See it if You want to see a masterfully acted, profound piece on growing older and death and a high school reunion
Don't see it if you don’t want to relive high school trauma.
See it if You’re an 80s kid confronting middle age and mortality. And to see a perfect ensemble tackle hilarious AND weighty material.
Don't see it if The toughest thing here is the running time. An intermission would help immensely, even if I understand why there isn’t one. Read more
See it if you can, in any capacity.
Don't see it if you can't sit through 2 hours...which most feature films are anyway. Read more
See it if You're an older millennial. This is about us and the many realities we face. Fantastic writing and astounding, masterful acting.
Don't see it if Two hour long, intermission-less straight plays are beyond your attention span.
See it if you want to see a deeply moving, wise, sad and often profound play that boasts a pitch-perfect acting ensemble.
Don't see it if you want an escapist "fun" play. And be warned: it runs over two hours and is performed without an intermission. Read more
See it if you appreciate challenging, dark, brilliant plays
Don't see it if you can't handle frank discussions of trauma, alcoholism, illness and death
See it if Well-written drama about 20th high school reunion & a bright small group of social outcasts. Great acting.
Don't see it if If you prefer a musical then skip this one.
Critic Reviews (14)
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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" '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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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