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New York Times

Coen’s-Eye View of 9 to 5
This set of three short plays by Ethan Coen leaves a distinctive if fleeting aftertaste that you’re not sure whether to savor or spit out.

New York Daily News

'Offices' is all work and three short, sly plays
Filmmaker Ethan Coen's new trio of playlets, "­Offices," offers sly takes on working 9 to 5 and the ways we make a living.

Associated Press

Darkly comic 'Offices' deals with workplace stress
Timing, as they say in show biz, is everything. And "Offices," the latest trio of one-act comedies by major film guy turned playwright Ethan Coen, could not have arrived at a more appropriate time, what with the economic downturn sparking rampant job insecurity.

Bloomberg.com

Ethan Coen Steps Off Screen, Finds Working People Fascinating: John Simon
Ethan Coen, well known as co-cineaste with his brother, Joel, returns as playwright to the Atlantic Theater Company. “Offices,” starring F. Murray Abraham, does not lack for easy laughs, but is more a sequence of skits than a trio of plays, despite an overarching theme.

Variety

Review: Offices
Three one-act plays that offer a brisk, brutal assessment of the contemporary workplace, where paper-pushing drudgery breeds alienation and paranoia but rarely efficiency, these dark situation comedies are given tasty treatment by director Neil Pepe and an adroit, multitasking cast.

BackStage

Offices reviewed by Erik Haagensen
Even though it clocks in at a mere 75 minutes, Ethan Coen's latest collection of one-acts wears out its welcome long before it's over, mistaking as it does banality for hipness.

TheaterMania

Review: Offices
Ethan Coen's new trio of one-acts about office life are quite amusing.

CurtainUp

Review: Offices
While Ethan Coen's triptych explore some Kafkaesque workplace issues, he's less like Kafka than a story-telling John Stewart or Steven Colbert with a nod to O. Henry