Praise for The Radio Plays : "Stoppard manages to pull off what seemed like an impossible challenge: He takes a foundational work of art and, with little to gain in doing so, re-imagines it in a way that remains true to the album's original spirit and intent . More and more curious, thought provoking and engaging with each scene." --NPR on Darkside "A psychedelic mash-up of Kantian philosophy, epic rock and John Prescott soundbites . A dazzling match of high philosophy and Floyd's own angst-ridden, existential questioning." -- Independent (UK) on Darkside "[Stoppard's] love of wordplay and of taking the imagination into new dimensions works brilliantly on air . It gives the album a whole new dimension. In return the music takes us to another place, giving Stoppard's worst much more impact." -- Spectator (UK) on Darkside "Fanciful .

Definably a Stoppard radio play, an art that the playwright has continued to pursue throughout his career . Reading the plays is a buoyant experience, second only to hearing them." -- New York Times on Albert's Bridge "The delicate web of voices spinning back and forth in Albert's Bridge spans a range of emotions no other medium could encompass." -- Boston Globe on Albert's Bridge "Stoppard in full flight." -- Spectator (UK) on On Dover Beach "The ingenious show has nothing to do with Duchamp or his famous picture . Its intricate plot finds two of the aging avant-garde fuddy-duddies trying to figure out how, in their absence, the third took a fatal fall down the staircase of the loft they have shared for many years" -- Newsday on Artist Descending a Staircase "An impressive study of emotional perceptions. Complex as a Bach score." -- Boston Globe on Artist Descending a Staircase "For those who admire the author's Jumpers and Travesties , this piece will offer special illumination .

By ingeniously linking his plot questions to his larger themes, Mr. Stoppard turns the play's running debate about art into something more compelling than academic chitchat." -- New York Times on Artist Descending a Staircase "An inventive twist to what might have been a predicable contrast of nostalgia and reality at an Old Boys' reunion dinner." -- Boston Globe on Where Are They Now? "Reveal[s] in embryonic form the dazzling talents and blind spots that Stoppard continues to manifest today. The sheer dramatic craft of this writer still in his twenties, for example, remains remarkable." -- Village Voice on A Separate Peace "The story--about a man who checks into a hospital in order to relax--has an undeniable poignancy . One of Stoppard's very first works." -- Variety on A Separate Peace.