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In his haunting new play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins updates the reunion genre with too much jungle juice and an otherworldly visitor.

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins knows why no one ever really recovers from high school

|Branden Jacobs-Jenkins debuts his latest drama at Signature Theatre. ||Off-Broadway|Bobby Moreno,Branden Jacobs-Jenkins,Brittany Bradford,Caleb Eberhardt,Eric Ting,Shannon Tyo,Susannah Flood,The Comeuppance

Read our review of The Comeuppance at New York Theatre Guide

I have never felt the slightest inclination to go to a high school reunion, but apparently many people do in America, and thus a subgenre of film and theater has been created. The premise is that no matter how miserable high school was or how bad your relationships were, you will return to spend a few intoxicated hours with those special people from long ago. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s riff on this genre, The Comeuppance at Signature Theatre, showcases his ease with dialogue as he keeps the a...

The play is about a group of friends who are reunited after college, and one of them brings an otherworldly visitor.

The world premiere opened at Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre June 5.

Eric Ting directs the world premiere from An Octoroon playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

Signature Theatre announces the cast and creative team of its world premiere production of MacArthur Fellow Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' The Comeuppance, directed by Eric Ting. Concluding Jacobs-Jenkins' Premiere Residency—and Signature's 2022-2023 season of personal and profound works from its Resident writers—The Comeuppance runs May 16–June 25.

Eric Ting will direct the world premiere from An Octoroon playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.