My City: review round up

Since What's On Stage posted a round up of reviews for My City on their website last week, several more great reviews have appeared, as well as some mixed ones. Ian Shuttleworth posted his very positive review on the Financial Times website, along with this photo of Tom with Tracey Ullman.  

Variety gave the play 3 stars and highlighted Tom's performance.

...Amid strong supporting perfs, Riley in particular manages to create an engaging portrait of a troubled young man who is not everything he claims to be.

Time Out awarded 3 stars, as did The Independent, also with this photo of Tom, while The Arts Desk awarded 4 stars. 

...Still, the cast is excellent, with Ullman joined by David Troughton and Sorcha Cusack as her fellow teachers, and Tom Riley and Siân Brooke both suggesting the child within the adult. This story about the eccentric, the macabre and the all too human may be imperfect, but it’s still much more stimulating than most other new writing.

My City: more reviews and audio clip

The Evening Standard gave My City 3 stars but was complimentary about Tom.

At the outset she is resting on a park bench and her former pupil Richard (a convincing Tom Riley) stumbles on her. This prompts him to renew contact with on-off friend Julie (Siân Brooke) and soon they are part of a quintet involving Lambert and two of their other old teachers, both deeply strange.

The play was also reviewed last night by Susannah Clapp for BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves. You can listen to the full review on iPlayer - interestingly a brief audio clip from the first scene of My City is included.

Three stars also from The Telegraph.

...as well as Ullman’s mesmerisingly enigmatic Miss Lambert there is fine support from Sorcha Cusack and the splendidly disconcerting David Troughton as two of her former colleagues, and from Tom Riley and Sian Brooke as their puzzled former pupils...

Michael Coveney has posted an article about attending the press night on the What's On Stage website. There is a blog review to be found here, where Tom is described as being brilliantly disbelieving and disarming as Richard. 

Monroe: DVD release and review

The Monroe DVD was released today and a great review has been posted on the Indie London website.

Riley, too, proved a solid presence (call him the UK’s Robert Sean Leonard if you will), bickering playfully with Monroe while trying to understand his ever-changing ‘secret’ relationship with Parish. He was arguably the show’s most flesh and blood character… the kind-hearted everyman within the hospital full of egotists, and his presence often brought much light relief. Yet he could also be dramatic when required and his own turmoil was often convincingly portrayed.

Arcadia: good reviews keep coming...

Two more great reviews have appeared online for Arcadia on Broadway, with the Twitter buzz remaining overwhelmingly positive and theatre bloggers still enjoying it too - read here and here. 

An equally superb Tom Riley is her tutor, Septimus, who is quite the lothario, making love to not only the poet Ezra Chater’s (David Turner) wife but also the lady of the house, Lady Groom (Margaret Colin). North Jersey.com

Septimus is not the nicest guy, but because of Riley he has the most charisma on stage. My Central Jersey.com

Don't miss this play. Arcadia on Broadway is brilliant and worth every penny.