The New York Times - Recommended
"...Mr. White, the author of The Other Place and The Snow Geese, both seen on Broadway, writes crisp, sometimes darkly funny, naturalistic dialogue. His two characters, the grizzled poet Ulysses and the former book editor Emma, who gave up her career to raise her son, offer some talent-stretching rewards to Ms. Mullally and Mr. Offerman."
Associated Press - Highly Recommended
"...Offerman, probably best-known for TV's "Parks and Recreation," is impressive as a broken man making the sardonic best of the bottom of his self-created downward trajectory. He's eminently sympathetic as blustery Ulysses, a recovering blackout alcoholic, one-time English professor and once-successful cowboy-poet. ... Emmy Award-winner Mullally is understated, taut and brisk as Emma tries to comprehend the newly-discovered wreckage of her ex-husband's life while quietly focused on a mission of her own. Throughout her subtle performance, Mullally generates the feeling that Emma is still fond of her unfortunate ex, even though she's only cleaning up his appearance for the imminent arrival of Sam."
Variety - Recommended
"...His director, Bart DeLorenzo, clearly relishes the grotesque, and so does Offerman, who is much more the stage animal than Mullally, his real-life wife. Her Will & Grace voice, so effective in television, requires a few more notes to express Emma's full rage and compassion. Mullally is, however, very moving when she reveals the play's big secret in a monologue that recalls Martha's ode to a son she never had in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
New York Post - Recommended
"...Offerman and Mullally (late of Will and Grace ), who are married in real life, have a strong chemistry onstage. But their efforts and Bart DeLorenzo's subtle staging are undone by the schematic writing, which uneasily veers from comic shtick to melodramatic revelations. Still, it's a pleasure to watch them stretch from their familiar sitcom personas. Offerman beautifully conveys Ulysses' wounded pride and stubborn determination to die in his own way, while Mullally is deeply moving as the woman who still loves him but who can't forget the horrors of the past."
Entertainment Weekly - Recommended
"...The 90 minutes of banter sometimes heartbreaking, always sharp revolves around why Emma left Ulysses in the middle of the night two decades earlier with their son, now 25. The build-up is so strong to those final moments when Ulysses' actions are finally revealed that you expect a Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? climax. Sharr White's script doesn't pack the same emotional gut punch, but that's no reason to dismiss this fine work. White's dialogue pops, especially when the extraordinary Offerman adroitly hops from desperate to lovestruck to angry to devastated."
Time Out New York - Recommended
"...While certain moments of Bart DeLorenzo's production are poignant, these characters are merely writerly constructs. Mullally is good and Offerman excellent. With his body and voice quivering as he struggles to hold in feelings threatening to break free, he's nearly as formidable as the mountain in the title."
Talkin Broadway - Recommended
"...Director Bart DeLorenzo, artistic director of the Evidence Room Theater in Los Angeles where Mullally and Offerman debuted in the play last year, could sand down some of the rougher edges leading to that point, making the trek a bit smoother and more realistic to be in keeping with the elaborate set (by Thomas A. Walsh) that really does look like a refuge against the elements. The actors are carrying more weight than they should making White's unsteady conceits work. But Mullally and Offerman do provide it nonetheless, and make Annapurna a fascinating and enriching outing from that standpoint."
The L Magazine - Recommended
"......the flaws in White's script (which is not bad exactly, just not great) are overcome by Mullally's excellent embodiment of a very specific type of woman one whose long ago, dearly held belief in the power of love was broken, and so who now clings to rituals like cleaning and cooking to prove that she's surviving and by Offerman's pathos-filled portrayal of an embittered man who must pretend to others (and to himself) that he's doing the best he can, that the problems in his life are due more to the exigencies of fate than to his own misdeeds."
TheaterMania - Recommended
"...White gives us plenty of insight about the nature of their love, doomed by circumstance and poor decisions. Emma, especially as portrayed by Mullally, captures the web of contradictions that comes with being both a mother and wife. The stellar performances, however, are not enough to hold our attention for the full 90 minutes. You'll be glad to leave behind the trailer and its inhabitants when the show is over."
