PERFORMANCE DATES
Begins April 2026
WHERE
The Irene Diamond Stage
The Pershing Square Signature Center
BEGINS APRIL 2026
THE PERSHING SQUARE SIGNATURE CENTER / OFF-BROADWAY
THE RECEPTIONIST
BY
ADAM BOCK
Please hold for Adam Bock’s “poisoned Post-it note of a play” (The New York Times), The Receptionist.
It’s business as usual at the Northeast Office where the cheerfully dutiful receptionist answers phones, brews coffee and gossips with co-workers. But when an unexpected visitor from the Central Office walks through the door, business becomes far from usual. The Receptionist is a jet-black comedy about bureaucracy and complicity that’s biting in its humor and chilling in its relevance.
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Second Stage Theater’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Season is supported by a grant from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Begins April 2026. Exact dates coming soon.
BY ADAM BOCK
Adam Bock’s other plays include Before The Meeting, A Life, A Small Fire, The Drunken City, The Thugs, The Typographer’s Dream, and Swimming in the Shallows – and have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, and Second Stage Uptown in NYC; and all over the US, in Canada, Australia and the UK and Argentina. He has received the Obie, the Guggenheim, a NEA, a Clauder Prize, the Bay Area Theatre Critics, Glickman, and Heideman Awards, and been nominated for multiple Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards.