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Review: Exit the King
Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon and Lauren Ambrose give excellent performances in Neil Armfield's beautifully calibrated revival of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist comedy.
My review is appearing here, in lieu of ATW-AP

New York Times

Sorry, Your Highness, but You’re So Over
This brutally funny revival of Eugène Ionesco’s play stars Geoffrey Rush in a knockout performance.

New York Daily News

B'way's 'Exit the King' is a 'rush'
In the revival of Eugene Ionesco's 1962 play "Exit the King," Geoffrey Rush's portrayal of a dying monarch makes this absurdist comedy about death lively and loopy - for a while.

amNY New York City Theater

Theater Review of Exit the King
Things don’t look too great for 400-year-old King Berenger. His madness and incompetence have destroyed the entire country. And when it looks like it can’t get any worse, Queen Marguerite informs the royal court that their egomaniacal king has only 90 minutes left to live. He refuses to come to terms with his impending death or relinquish control, but time is ticking.

Newsday

Review: 'Exit the King' with Rush and Sarandon
If an evening-long death scene isn't your idea of exhilarating theater, you haven't been to "Exit the King." This inspired revival of Eugene Ionesco's seldom-seen 1962 absurdist tragicomedy has been conceived as the unlikely love child of a fractured fairy tale and "King Lear."

New York Post

It's Rush hour!
'King' star ascends to B'way royalty
ny1

NY1 Theater Review: "Exit The King"
"Exit The King" is a play about the meaning of life in all its wondrous, mundane glory from the perspective of death. It's not Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," but Eugene Ionesco went in a completely different direction and his absurdist riff on the theme is no less profound.

Time Out New York

Review: Exit the King
Geoffrey Rush rules the stage.

Hartford Courant

New York Stage: 'Exit The King' Resonates As Absurdist Farce
Geoffrey Rush and his director/co-translator Neil Armfield have made a very funny but penetrating absurdist farce of Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King."

Associated Press

A Mesmerizing Geoffrey Rush Sparks 'Exit the King'
We haven't seen a star turn like this in quite a while.

Wall Street Journal

Beating Up the Bourgeoisie
[God of Carnage, Exit the King, Impressionsim reviews]

Bloomberg.com

Sarandon, Rush Play Doddering Royal, Consort in Ionesco Farce: John Simon
If you enjoy clown shows, the new Australian production of “Exit the King” has everything but the sawdust.

USA Today

Broadway's 'Exit the King' is a crowning achievement
In the new Broadway revival of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist classic (***½ out of four), we witness the last moments of an autocratic regime and its leader, King Berenger, who is told in the first act that he'll die before the final curtain

Variety

Review: Exit the King
"Nothing's abnormal when abnormal has become the new normal," declares Geoffrey Rush, a short distance into his astonishing performance as the dying monarch in "Exit the King."

Hollywood Reporter

Theater Review: Exit the King
Bottom Line: Geoffrey Rush's dazzling turn makes this revival of Ionesco's rarely performed absurdist classic a must-see..

Back Stage

Exit the King reviewed by Erik Haagensen [critic's pick]
Who knew Exit the King was so funny? Certainly not the 14-year-old Ohio lad who saw the play's Broadway premiere in 1968 as his very first Main Stem show

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Exit the KingXIT THE KING Review
You’ve undoubtedly heard that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. Well, no one’s lived a greater life or faced brighter and more prolonged flashing in his terminal moments than King Berenger I, the ruler of creation and assorted