The show explores how young adults deal with their personal feelings and situations and how they develop communities based on their shared experiences.

The musical, featuring songs and monologues, explores how young adults, searching for human connection, deal with their personal feelings and situations and, as well, how they develop communities based on their shared experiences.

[2] Reviewer Michael Grossberg of The Columbus Dispatch writes, "Refreshingly youthful in topic and tone, “The Theory of Relativity” is a modest but winsome ensemble musical with rueful insights and lilting melodies that evoke a pivotal stage of life with moving freshness".

[3] Reviewer Jared Echevarria of Broadway World notes that the musical has "well-written songs" and is a "coming-of-age story that would surely remind you of how you were in your student years".

This reviewer concludes, "I defy anyone, whatever may be happening in their lives, to leave this production without feeling renewed hope, being profoundly uplifted, and having learned at least a little bit more about science.