"This tiny play about love and loss and betrayal in a dying Middle America is something everyone should see and then talk about."

 Variety

"Arbery is one of the theater’s greatest listeners, able to hear and reproduce the subtle and deeply specific ways individuals reveal themselves and their relationships to others with language."

 The New York Times Magazine

"Surreal touches lend mystery to the mundane in this teasingly existential comedy-drama."

 TheaterMania

"A work that makes you laugh, recoil and think… the ostensible subject of the dark absurdist comedy... is the human impact of climate change. But it’s more universally about the psychological and emotional climate of existential dread that manifests itself with the fear of change… the show interweaves segments of laugh-out-loud ridiculousness with sudden inexplicable shocks of eerie dark energy as it delves into the minds of the anxiety-ridden characters, in a challenging work loaded with meaningful absurdity."

 DC Theater Arts

"A pitch-dark comedy… Arbery is the playwright of the moment… writing about issues that tend to lead to indulgent hopelessness. …But what if looking right into the heart of catastrophe could actually get us to act?"

 The New Yorker

"Strange and wonderful... goes to some very dark places, but in drawing out the humor in life's ridiculousness, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing is oddly and refreshingly affirming."

 Talkin' Broadway

"A song for the striving: a love letter to those who feel too much, who can’t help but give and give of themselves even if it comes at their own expense."

 The Brooklyn Rail

"In a great piece of art, you’ll have one moment where the truth will punch through. But in a profoundly generous piece of art, like Evanston – a play that is theoretical, painful, deep, and hysterically funny – those moments of truth keep punching through and through and through."

 BOMB Magazine