"An expertly engineered comedy. Whether in madcap comedy or socially conscious drama, Lindsay-Abaire can be relied upon to buck generic conventions. Ripcord is admirable in its precision and symmetry; there's not a comic setup that isn't balanced by a logically consistent payoff." --Ben Brantley, New York Times " Ripcord is a wily, witty play." --Aaron Lyle Leth, Harper's Bazaar "Lindsay-Abaire's tastily sweet-and- sour Ripcord .is solidly crafted.It offers a compelling look at the pleasure of a challenge and the challenge of finding pleasure." --Adam Feldman, Time Out New York " Ripcord is an unrestrained, loopy, rip-roaring comedy.

Rather than simply coming up with a clever situation featuring likably difficult characters, Lindsay-Abaire takes the action in unexpected directions, which pay off in a grand comic manner." --Steven Suskin, Huffington Post "Lindsay-Abaire is a master at combining dark and light comedy. And, as he so beautifully demonstrated in Rabbit Hole , he can certainly write drama. In Ripcord , it all comes together quite amusingly as he.expertly maneuvers from high jinks to heartache with sublime finesse." --Roma Torre, NY1 " Ripcord is a deeply satisfying and vastly entertaining story of two elderly women thrown together by a comic cosmic force possessed of a wicked sense of humor.With Lindsay-Abaire--a shape-shifting writer of always humanist works--nothing ever happens merely for its own sake.there are deeper issues lurking below the comedic surface.

" --Jeremy Gerard, Deadline.