Vincent Canby of The New York Times described the play as " Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion " but many New York reviews were mixed or unfavourable, citing anachronisms and a lack of realism in Stoppard's conception.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times described The Frisco Kid as " harmless chaos ": " People keep coming and going and doing ferociously cute things, but never anything that could appeal to anyone except a close relative or someone with a built-in weakness for anything ethnic whatsoever.

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