Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins debuts his latest play, The Comeuppance, to finish out Signature Theatre's 2022-23 season. Get The Comeuppance tickets on New York Theatre Guide.
The Comeuppance is a play set just before a 20-year high school reunion, when some of the former classmates gather to pregame first. Self-described as the “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” of their class, they rediscover each other's old selves — and drinks, drugs, and a truth-telling game reveal how they've all changed. But there's another guest lurking among them: Death, who narrates their fates throughout this dark comedy.
The Comeuppance replaces a previously announced production of Grass, another world-premiere play Jacobs-Jenkins was set to write and direct. For The Comeuppance off Broadway, Jacobs-Jenkins hands off directorial duties to Eric Ting, who staged Lloyd Suh's The Far Country with Atlantic Theater Company earlier this season.
Jacobs-Jenkins is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for his plays Everybody and Gloria, and he's also a two-time Obie Award winner for Appropriate and An Octoroon. He has a longstanding residency at Signature Theatre; Appropriate and Everybody both premiered there.
His plays are known for putting a contemporary, experimental twist on classic shows, but others, like The Comeuppance, feature fully original plots.
Get your comeuppance when you get The Comeuppance tickets on New York Theatre Guide.
May 17th, 2023
June 25th, 2023
14+
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Director: Eric Ting
Producer: Signature Theatre Company
Cast list: Brittany Bradford (as Ursula), Caleb Eberhardt (as Emilio), Susannah Flood (as Caitlin), Bobby Moreno (as Francisco), Shannon Tyo (as Maryana)
Design: Arnulfo Maldonado
Costumes: Jennifer Moeller and Miriam Kelleher
Lighting: Amith Chandrashaker
Sound: Palmer Hefferan
Other info: Magic design by Skylar Fox, intimacy coordination by Ann C. James
Wheelchair access, assisted listening devices; open caption, audio described, and ASL performances
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