The Last Supper

Reviews

"The hottest new show in New York!" - NBC's "Today Show"

"Thoroughly disarming and highly theatrical piece of anti-theater ... you should be prepared to have your every expectation of theater subverted." - Bruce Weber, New York Times. Read the review.

"A wandering mix of Andy Kaufman-style performance art, cerebral stand-up comedy and Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding ... It's not hard to see why audiences fall for Schmidt; Supper ... has a warmth and humor largely absent from downtown's hipster theater." - Jason Zinoman, Time Out New York. Read the review.

"Schmidt is the ultimate postmodern chef - an unreliable narrator whose falsifications carry truth, and whose half-faked cookery culminates in actual nourishment." - Michael Feingold, Village Voice. Read the review.

Brings to mind both Julia Child and Spalding Gray ... a surprisingly spirited attempt at making the Host palatable to contemporary audiences." - The New Yorker. Read the review.

"One of the city's most unusual, uh, worship services ... one of [the] most extraordinary theater experiences." - New York Post. Read the review.

"A wonderfully offbeat event ... unusually entertaining ... as thoughtful as it is funny ... intimate and unique ... theater of unusual distinction." - Michael Sommers, Newark Star-Ledger. Read the review.

"Schmidt [plays] his part with a surefooted spontaneity that keeps the audience unsure of where the show ends and real life begins." - Newsday. Read the review.

"The Rev. Ed Schmidt's voice cracks like incoming thunder as he preaches from his pulpit at the Church of Universal Life." - Christian Science Monitor. Read the article.

"A canny examination of the way that religious events, including miracles, come about through the consent of the congregation ... You leave Schmidt's company feeling surprisingly well nourished." - Adam Feldman, Time Out New York. Read the review.

"Defies just about every dramatic convention ever employed ... By the end of the evening, the audience has the kind of we're-all-in-this-together feeling only achieved in terrible disasters or communal celebrations ... At a time when a great deal of experimental theater is mostly trying, sometimes actually tormenting, it's really nice to see someone creating something - theater, dinner, standup comedy? - that's actually fun." - Brooklyn Papers. Read the review.

"Schmidt bounces existential curve balls around the apartment, where angst-ridden lives are questioned, mocked and rhapsodized. He pokes the human psyche, digressing into everything from Greek tragedy to twists on Agatha Christie." - Associated Press. Read the review.

"He reminds us that even when everything appears lost in theater, we never lose faith in it." - John Heilpern, New York Observer. Read one of the strangest reviews you've ever read. Heilpern "gets" the play completely and, at the same time, has no clue.

"The Last Supper has earned rave reviews and had a 1,000-person waiting list." - Joel Stein, Show People. Read the article.

"A creative act of discussion that is sorely missing from most theatergoing experiences." - Performance Review. Read the review.

"An Off-Off-Off Broadway sensation." - New York Observer. Read the article.

"Pure magic ... Fine thoughtful, funny entertainment ... very orginal." - New York Film and Video Monitor

"One of the most unorthodox, fast-paced, tangent-jumping and funny plays I have seen." - New York Amsterdam News.

"The most Pirandellian theatrical experience currently available to New York theatergoers." - Curtain Up. Read the review.

"The finest American play of the last half century" - I swear to God that's what it says. Read the review and see for yourself.