October 21, 2024
Talkin' Broadway
The Comeuppance
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Review by Susan Berlin
Sarah Gliko, Alana Raquel Bowers, Jordan Bellow, and Taysha Marie Canales
Photo by Cameron Whitman Photography
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is not only one of the most imaginative playwrights currently writing, he is also a native of the Washington metropolitan area. His engrossing and sometimes head-spinning play The Comeuppance, now at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, stands on its own while also benefiting from references to recognizable places and events in “the DMV.”