Get ready for the unexpected when Norm and his wife Corky invite another couple to their Ojai backyard to watch a meteor shower in the night sky. As the stars come out and the conversation gets rolling, cocktails flow, tempers flare, and sparks fly-literally. Steve Martin's surprising new comedy takes an offbeat and absurdist look at the comic anxiety lurking just beneath the surface of modern marriage.
Steve 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 for Broadway - assuming you consider 80 minutes full-length. 'Meteor Shower,' which opened Wednesday at the Booth Theatre, 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.
With one toe dipped uncertainly in sketch comedy and another in theater of the absurd, Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' comes across as oddly, even merrily, flat-footed. Big-time comedians Amy Schumer and Keegan-Michael Key make their Broadway debuts in this lightweight affair, one in which they and co-stars Laura Benanti and Jeremy Shamos do at least manage to give a convincing impression of having a swell old time.
| 2016 | San Diego, CA (Regional) |
The Old Globe World Premiere Production San Diego, CA (Regional) |
| 2017 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Laura Benanti |
| 2018 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Amy Schumer |
| 2018 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | Steve Martin |
| 2018 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Amy Schumer |
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