Praise for Jumpers : "The kind of gem that few playwrights other than Stoppard could have crafted: a freewheeling farce with a soulful, searing conscience."-- USA Today "A daredevil extravaganza with amateur acrobats in the ballroom and a huge, insistent love for humanity in its addled soul. Part murder mystery, part academic satire, part cosmic meditation on the nature of goodness, this is also an old-time English sex farce with a silly streak as deep as its embrace is wide."-- Newsday "Exuberantly surreal . A rare treat on Broadway: a comedy that inspires, indeed demands, intellectual engagement."-- Variety "The wordplay and absurd twists of logic are endless. There is something dazzling about the way the play veers between academic and farcical."-- New York Daily News "Stoppard's high hurdle of a comedy [is] filled with dense philosophical discussion, impossibly clever quips, deliberately bad musical numbers and one dead gymnast.

" -- Miami Herald "Stoppard makes mock of philosophers with the same vigor Molière showed in poking fun at doctors 350 years ago: a riot of paradox about the reality of goodness and the dangers of our technological world."-- New York Post " Jumpers remains a major. piece of work by a major British playwright." -- Jacques Le Sourd, Journal News "It's Stoppard in Wonderland--a Wonderland in which his quicksilver brain is free to juggle with paradoxes and to conjure with logic in the manner of Lewis Carroll . An intellectual plum pudding." -- Peter Lewis, Daily Mail "The new Radical Liberal Party has made the ex-Minister of Agriculture Archbishop of Canterbury, British astronauts are scrapping with each other on the moon and sprightly academics steal about London by night indulging in murderous gymnastics: this is the kind of manic, futuristic, topsy-turvy world in which Stoppard's dazzling play is set. And if I add that the influences apparently include Wittgenstein, Magritte, the Goons, Robert Dhery, Joe Orton and The Avengers , you will have some idea of the heady brew Stoppard has here concocted." -- Michael Billington, Guardian "Don't worry if you're not up on your Keats or Milton, or for that matter your Plato or Wittgenstein.

For all the intellectual namedropping, Jumpers . is ultimately less of a showoff demonstration of what Mr. Stoppard knows than a humble contemplation of what he and all humankind can never know." -- Ben Brantley, New York Times.