In 1993, a meteor shower occurs in Ojai, California. Corky and her husband Norm invite another couple for dinner, Gerald and Laura. Over the course of the evening, Gerald and Laura are belligerent and aggressive.
The play premiered on Broadway on November 1, 2017 in previews, officially on November 29, 2017 at the Booth Theatre. Direction is by Jerry Zaks, with scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, costumes by Ann Roth and lighting by Natasha Katz. The original Broadway cast features Keegan-Michael Key as Gerald, Amy Schumer as Corky, Laura Benanti as Laura, and Jeremy Shamos as Norm. This marks Schumer and Key's Broadway debuts.[4][5] The play closed on January 21, 2018.[6]
Allison Adato of Entertainment Weekly reviewer wrote of the Broadway production that Meteor Shower is "a very funny play. Keening-like-a-howler-monkey funny. Design-a-new-cry-laughing-emoji funny. What it is not, however, is a substantial play...All four actors enjoy a share of the silliness, which they put over ably in black-out scenes that tell and retell variations of the evening’s events. But the night belongs to Schumer, her timing, her mugging, her deftness with some extremely ridiculous gags."[7]
