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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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.
'Staff Meal' review — new play serves up a slice of surrealism
8 / 10
I send compliments to the head chef: Morgan Green, the director of Abe Koogler’s Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons. If you're the kind of open-minded patron who might crack a smile to the chef and say 'surprise me,' Staff Meal delivers. The play ushers audiences into a cozy restaurant space where two lovers meet and then takes us across unknown dimensions. This surreal adventure is like a Rorschach test: Whatever you make of it, its meaning is specific to you.
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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