On The Razzle Reviews
Los Angeles Times- Not Recommended
"...It's hard to say why the play's production at Theatre West doesn't reach the level of comical lunacy that is so obviously required. Certainly, co-directors Pete Parkin and John Gallogly have assembled a cast of game and crisply well-prepared actors who go through their frenetic paces with nary a hitch. Perhaps it's simply that the sheer broadness of the performances, combined with the sweeping broadness of the material, add up to a production almost completely lacking in the underlying subtlety and craft that would leaven the silliness."
LA Splash- Somewhat Recommended
"...Razzle, though peppered with an unremitting display of verbal gymnastics, puns, and sly sexual innuendos, is mostly slapstick and rather thin on substance, and, because of the relentlessly racy, and at times frenetic, pace, some good opportunities for audience engagement are lost. The enthusiastic cast is to be admired for injecting an enormous amount of physical and verbal energy into a linguistically demanding farce. I'm perplexed and distracted by the seemingly incongruous casting of women in the male roles of Melchoir and Christopher. Superb period costuming by Majorie Van Der Hoff greatly enhances the Viennese-inspired theme."
The Tolucan Times- Recommended
"...The show is fun and comical. The script subtly displays how one's station was paramount, that breaking convention is a gentle form of revolution."
Cynthia Citron- Somewhat Recommended
"...Like all farces, On the Razzle is replete with lots of running around, banging of doors, miscommunications, misunderstandings, misidentifications, and frantic hiding out. This play, however, is generously built on puns, double entendres, and sexual innuendoes. Some of them funny, others elusive. Stoppard himself has admitted that he had to rewrite much of the humor and dialogue, as the Austrian version is filled with site-specific allusions, colloquialisms, and multiple puns that don't translate well."