“It’s all very, very funny... baked to golden perfection.” – The New York Times
“A show that’s about swimming and making people laugh about bodies, but it’s mostly about our need to laugh about death. And it’s beautiful: exquisitely written, performed and designed, with all of Birbiglia’s characteristic ear for tone and rhythm... All anecdotes and metaphors click neatly into one another; all the stories build and coalesce and flow from one event to the next.” – Vulture
“A rumination on severe obstacles which ought not be funny but, in the author’s telling, are positively side-splitting.” – New York Stage Review
“A tight, perfectly constructed 85 minutes... a very real insight into mortality, health and the fragility of life – and, most poignantly, the tenuousness of our connections to those we love.” – Deadline
“Delightful... Birbiglia doesn’t bend toward sentimentality. When it comes to matters of the heart, poetic and cardiovascular, he simply suggests chains of family history can be broken.” – New York Theatre Guide
“The latest Mike check-up, the funny and endearing The Old Man and the Pool, dives back into questions of life and death, delivered with a goofy gallows grin that helps the medicine go down.” – Time Out NY
“Resoundingly entertaining... a downright pleasurable evening... just what the doctor ordered.” – Talkin’ Broadway