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Meandering, flat and witless: Plaza Suite, at the Savoy Theatre, reviewed

Plus: a strange and painful experience at the Southwark Playhouse

The stars of Plaza Suite, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, are married in real life – and it’s very obvious which of them is enjoying herself more. Credit: Marc Brenner  
issue 03 February 2024

Plaza Suite is a sketch show by Neil Simon set in a luxury New York hotel in 1968. The play is rarely revived and it’s never been staged in the West End before. Simon’s idea (which Noël Coward accused him of stealing from his play Suite in Three Keys) is to place a trio of unrelated stories in the same hotel room.

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