End of the World (1985)
Resident Director Jeff Steitzer brings us an extraordinary comedy by Arthur Kopit about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and our continuing efforts to achieve national security. As Brendan Gill of The New Yorker wrote: “ wrings laughter from us at the very moment when, shaking our heads, we Whisper darkly among ourselves that the end of the World is no laughing matter.” Benedict Nightingale of The New York Times described it as “an exhilarating rush of oxygen to the brain, restoring cells half-suffocated by the intellectual emptiness of Broadway.”
Kopit himself described the play as an autobiographical detective story, “a kind of theatrical Maltese Falcon. ”And he added that the ideal quote from someone seeing his play would be: “I’ve just seen the End of the World, and it’s fun!”