The New York Times - Highly Recommended
"..."A Case for the Existence of God," which opened on Monday in a Signature Theater production directed exquisitely by David Cromer, is another of Hunter's public explorations of his own private Idaho: a post-boom, existential vastness in which emotional and economic collapse are conjoined. Earlier plays set in Lewiston, Boise, Pocatello and others have dealt with people failing to thrive in the barrenness of Costcos, Hobby Lobbys and sub-Olive Garden restaurants."
Vulture - Highly Recommended
"...As a daring bit of self-restriction, Hunter keeps his two characters nearly motionless for almost the entire one-act play. In David Cromer's exquisitely judged, perfectly performed production at the Signature Theater, the two men stay seated in Keith's small cubicle office under a dropped, fluorescent ceiling, the cramped space (filing drawers, monitors, cabinets) suspended like a vivid droplet against designer Arnulfo Maldonado's white cyclorama. Time hops forward, the men meet week after week, but you can only tell because a computer's screensaver shifts; Hunter's scenes bleed into each other, and in the cubicle, the shadows barely change."
The Wrap - Highly Recommended
"...This review is purposefully sparse on specifics regarding what actually happens in Hunter's play. That's because the sense of discovery that this production evokes is one of its major pleasures. Discover them for yourself. "A Case for the Existence of God" is a world premiere, and there hasn't been a better one for a play this theater season in New York City."
TheaterMania - Highly Recommended
"...If the title doesn't scare you, then the one-line plot synopsis might. Samuel D. Hunter's new play at the Pershing Square Signature Center is called A Case for the Existence of God, and it's about a man trying to get a loan in rural Idaho. Cast those aspersions aside, though - this 90-minute two-hander, which David Cromer directs, is one of the most moving new plays of the year."
TheaterScene.net - Somewhat Recommended
"...Though there's two well-delineated characters and a compelling plot, A Case for the Existence of God plays out like a 90-minute cerebral exercise, reaching an unsatisfying pseudo-fantastical conclusion. This is explained by Hunter's stage directions which explicitly have the actors sitting for a good deal of the time. He has several dictates as to how his dialogue should be delivered, one example is "Dialogue written in italics is emphatic, deliberate; dialogue in ALL CAPS is impulsive, explosive. Dialogue in [brackets] is implied, not spoken.""
NY Theatre Guide - Recommended
"..."I think we share a specific kind of sadness," Ryan tells Keith in A Case for the Existence of God. He's right. The source of that sorrow is revealed bit-by-bit in this deeply compassionate, quietly remarkable two-hander by Samuel D. Hunter."
The Observer - Recommended
"...I will admit, the day after I saw A Case for the Existence of God, the grandiose title still rankled. It seemed like a big hat for a small cowboy. If you don't believe in a supreme being, the title is even more dissonant. Still, if Hunter replaced "God" with "love" I wouldn't have a problem with it, and love is, ultimately, also abstract. Let's just agree that if two broken individuals can conquer fear to comfort each other, maybe something sacred walks the land."
Theatrely - Highly Recommended
"...A mortgage broker, we learn early on in A Case for the Existence of God, is not the same as a mortgage lender: he is a middleman, unable to grant anyone's wish and living in a no man's land of pending choices and decisions. Sublimely directed by David Cromer with the dignity and consequence of an instant classic, Samuel D. Hunter's phenomenal new play brings the terror of such trapped existences to dizzying light with its two-man cast. Never has immobility and cautiousness seemed so frighteningly visceral."
New York Stage Review - Highly Recommended
"...Samuel D. Hunter, who has astonished us with The Whale, Lewiston/Clarkston, and Greater Clements (among others) is back in our midst with another extraordinary play, A Case for the Existence of God."