"Mr. Karam’s observations are shrewd... A plot description doesn’t hint at how funny and cliché-free this brilliantly performed little show is... The play’s real accomplishment is its picture of the borderland between late adolescence and adulthood, where grown-up ideas and ambition coexist with childish will and bravado... The triumph of this production is that we never feel we’re being educated, just immensely entertained." -Caryn James, The New York Times
"Stephen Karam's savvy comedy about three teenage outsiders grappling with sexual secrets and drawn together via the Internet is... bristling with vitality, wicked humor, terrific dialogue and a direct pipeline into the zeitgeist of contemporary youth." -David Rooney, Variety
"The best explanation for how much "Speech & Debate" can get away with is probably that it earns enormous credibility with its audience by being flat-out funny... Much of the credit goes to young playwright Stephen Karam, who has an outstanding ear for how young people talk and whose comedy was selected as the first production of Roundabout Underground." -Associated Press
