Staff Meal
Closing: May 19, 2024Staff Meal - 2024 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
Peter Jay Sharp Theater (at Playwrights Horizons)
416 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036
Outside, the world is breaking apart. But in here, a group of lonely city dwellers gather to find comfort and connection. Abe Koogler’s Staff Meal is a kaleidoscopic comedy about a mysterious and beautiful restaurant, where the food is delicious, the service is warm, and some strange power keeps the darkness at bay. You are safe here – at least until closing time.
Staff Meal - 2024 - Off-Broadway Cast
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Review: ‘Staff Meal’ Offers Seven Courses of Tasty Disorientation
9 / 10
It isn’t hard to see what Staff Meal is about (among other topics, questioning the value of weird theater), but the way it articulates the dance of service and fancy is what lingers on the palate. Koogler stokes our affection for the comforts of civilization but also underscores how fragile they are. I’m no food critic but take my advice: book a table before word gets out.
Staff Meal Deserves Five Stars on Yelp
9 / 10
Without recourse to literalism, Koogler conjures the quintessence of 2020 — the absurdity and fragility, the aimlessness and mental rabbit holes, waiting and grief, the forgetting how to talk to other people, listening to yourself and thinking I sound like an alien in a person suit. Staff Meal feels like a portal: We tumble through its funny, eerie evocation of the moment that made—is still making—our present, and we come out the other side feeling, for all its ebb toward emptiness, full.
by Stephi Wild - May 6, 2024
Playwrights Horizons has extended its world premiere production of Staff Meal, Abe Koogler's funny, startling new play.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 29, 2024
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| 2024 | Off-Broadway |
Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway Premiere Production Off-Broadway |
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