Welcome to the Plaza Hotel. During your stay, you’ll experience Neil Simon’s timeless comedy masterpiece Plaza Suite, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick. Get your tickets now on TodayTix.
Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and four-time Golden Globe winner Sarah Jessica Parker will return to this production in London after a sold-out limited engagement on Broadway. It will mark the first time this married couple has played opposite each other on a West End stage.
Three captivating stories, three unforgettable couples — all centered around one iconic hotel room. Watch Karen and Sam as they navigate the challenges of a faltering marriage. Experience the sweet nostalgia of high school sweethearts Muriel and Jesse as they contemplate a lifetime together. And join in the laughter and heartache with Norma and Roy, as they grapple with their daughter's uncertainty about her upcoming wedding.
In John Benjamin Hickey’s production, transferred from Broadway, the pair are certainly competent, with all the accomplished comic timing and cunningly deployed, tongue-in-cheek charm that their screen work promises. But there’s a grating, over-deliberate quality here, every gag, tic, cocked eyebrow and wry intonation arriving bang on cue without the faintest scintilla of spontaneity. It’s nowhere near enough to lend substance to Simon’s overstretched writing.
Are the VIPs any good? The audience at the performance I saw had already made up its mind on that score, breaking into prolonged applause, Broadway-style, when they made their entrances in the first instalment, which explores what happens when a dowdy, middle-aged wife discovers that her workaholic husband is having a dalliance with his secretary.
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