Phantom of The Opera | Oslo

★★★★★

“..consistently amazing costumes and a scenography with scenic solutions that occasionally take your breath away... Andrew Riley and his stunningly lavish scenes add weight to the blending contrasts through the music, opera layouts, and key scenes like the mask ball, which opens another act and becomes a visually sumptuous highlight in the performance. Here's nothing spared anything about ensembles, costumes or scenes, like with cascades of glitter, in stark contrast to the opaque and secret backstage of the Opera, the dark underground vaults with the organ and the evening-dragged roof top that leads the mind to the Paris Opera.

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Dagsavisen, Norway

★★★★★

"Visually lavish"

VG, Norway

★★★★★

Aftenposten, Norway

★★★★★

" The Underground Lair is the grandest scenery of them all...looks fantastic."

Broadway World, Norway

★★★★★ "Magnificent"

Dagbladet, Norway

Flight | Scottish Opera

★★★★★

“Jonathan Dove’s must-see work, set in an airport departure lounge, shows how modern opera can be thrillingly relevant.”

The Times

★★★★★

“Twenty years on, Flight looks more modern and relevant than ever, for all that this production trades on nostalgia for a time when flying was glamourous and fun. Stylishly staged by Andrew Riley with great efficiency.”

The Herald Scotland

★★★★

“Jonathan Dove's airport opera soars above the ordinary. Full of visual gags and striking singing, Scottish Opera’s tale of passengers stuck in a departure lounge shuttles deftly between humour and profundity.”

The Guardian

★★★★ 

“Poignant and powerful, this production soars.”

The Arts Desk

The Telegraph  ★★★★

"...brilliantly designed by Andrew Riley and with lighting by Richard Howell – their electrical storm in Act II is an absolute visual triumph – is unfailingly clever."

The Stage

The Vanishing Bridegroom | British Youth Opera

★★★★

"Stuart Barker's production, with clever driftwood designs by Andrew Riley, was fluid and effective, using the chorus skilllfully..."  

The Times

★★★★

"...stylishly designed, a fairytale scene taking place beneath wooden rafters, by Andrew Riley. "

The Observer

★★★★

"Correspondingly ideal is its ingenious production, with cleverly varied lighting by David Howe amid Andrew Riley’s craggily effective set, where hanging ropes suggest dark woods or the chorus becomes animated nature to evoke a difficult highland hike."

The Independent

"...Andrew Riley’s evocative designs, skilfully lit by David Howe and charming in every sense, came into their own."

The Standard

Telegraph  ★★★★

The Guardian  ★★★★

Whisper House | The Other Palace

★★★★

"Visually the production is a knockout, with Andrew Riley's circular set ingeniously evoking the lighthouse, numerous external locales and the seashore itself."  

Alun Hood, Whats on Stage

★★★★

"Director Adam Lenson's production charges it up with brooding atmosphere. Andrew Riley's set is like looking down on a whirlpool, with a pit sunk into the middle of the stage in which much of the action takes place... Dramatically intense and musically thrilling new chamber musical."

Mark Shenton, The Stage

★★★★

" A deliciously dark ghost story." 

Radio Times

"Bolstered by impeccable costuming and set deisgn, the show is full of character while remaining evocative of wartime America. "

The Upcoming

"Designer Andrew Riley....has created a stunning concept for the staging, realising it in concentric circles of wooden decking that sink down into the well of The Other Palace's main stage."

British Theatre.com

Diary of a Teenage Girl | Southwark Playhouse

★★★★

"...colourful, fluid production - the gloriously garish period design is by Andrew Riley - lulls us into a false sense of security with cute projections ....” 

Whats on Stage 

★★★★

"Andrew Riley’s set is minimal but carefully versatile with a bed the focal point of the stage, also doubling as a sometime bar and café."  

A Younger Theatre

★★★★

"The ever-adaptable space in The Little is transformed into a typically 1970s bedroom, all browns and oranges in geometric patterns, on a thrust performance area. The authenticity of the period is entirely present in Andrew Riley's design."

Broadway World

"It’s attractively packaged – Riley’s forced perspective set design centred around a bed is colourful and clever – with swirling projections (Nina Dunn)"

Exeunt Magazine

"They have engaged the adept Andrew Riley to provide set and costume design, with glorious animations from Nina Dunn and sounds from James Nicholson, and together this team brings us firmly into the California of the mid-1970s."

Britishtheatre.com

Everything Theatre ★★★★★   "Unmissable"

Theatre Weekly ★★★★★   "Exceptional"

The Stage  ★★★★

Vanities: The Musical | Trafalgar Studios 2

★★★★

“Plews puts the action on Andrew Riley's pastel-coloured set of shelves, where props and costumes are stored as the narrative moves on. The set becomes a little remembrance cupboard and it works for the tiny space at Trafalgar Studios. It crowns this bitter-sweet and surprising take on an everyman tale.” 

Whats on Stage 

★★★★

“The clever set, designed by Andrew Riley, allows the trio to age before us as they move between eras in their changing rooms, donning costumes and wigs representative of the time period as they transform before our eyes.” 

Broadway World 

★★★★

“Andrew Riley’s set and costume design work perfectly to keep the action flowing while reflecting the intimacy of the story, utilising three ‘changing rooms’ as time capsules that marked the passing of the years.” 

Reviews Hub 

★★★★

“The change in music is echoed by the change in fashion style, efficiently portrayed through Andrew Riley’s glamorous period costumes and set design.” 

The Upcoming

★★★★

"...the outstanding production values of this modestly staged piece that make it fizz. The design is classy too with Andrew Riley making clever use of the Studio's compact space."

Jonathan Baz

Flight | Opera Holland Park

★★★★★

 "...Andrew Riley utilises the widescreen panoramic stage brilliantly to create a typically faceless departure lounge, over which the Controller presides." 

Mark Pullinger, bachtrack.com

★★★★★

"...Andrew Riley's matt grey set of sliding doors (behind which Whately and von Bergen experiment with some athletic sexual positions) and modular seating becomes a midsummer dreamworld with the aid of Jack Henry James's video design. 

The Times

★★★★★

 Andrew Riley's set was simple yet elegant in shades of grey..This was a notable achievement for Opera Holland Park, a production in which staging, performance, singing and playing all came together in a satisfyingly balanced whole without a weak link. 

Operatoday.com

★★★★

".. Dove's score has the same slick statelessness as Andrew Riley's designs."

 Arts Desk

★★★★

 "...Opera Holland Park has done the show proud with a fluent light-touch staging directed by Stephen Barlow and designed by Andrew Riley.. .Flight takes wing and provides uncomplicated pleasure." 

The Telegraph

★★★★ 

In the passenger lounge of a bustling modern airport... magnificently rendered in Andrew Riley's curved designs, all smoked glass and swishing lifts. 

Whats on Stage

★★★★  

Andrew Riley's pristine terminal interior is aptly designed...there's no doubt this is a first-class ride.

The Stage

★★★★ 

...designed by Andrew Riley, presents an impressively sleek, silver-and-chrome airport terminal that makes the most of the panoramic stage. The working lifts, the departure board, the control room - every detail is nicely reimagined in theatrical terms. 

The Financial Times

Songs for a New World | St James Theatre

★★★★

...it sometimes seems as if this bare, New York loft apartment overlooking the Statue of Liberty, a place both of arrivals and departures – is full of jostling ghosts.

The Guardian

★★★★

The set by Andrew Riley is fairly ambiguous – to me it was a New York loft apartment waiting for someone to live in it ...and makes good use of the stage, particularly as there is plenty of space for the band to be both on stage and not at the same time.

Londontheatre.com

The stage is a warehouse-style apartment on the edge of New York Harbor. Outside the window, the Statue of Liberty, that famous first glimpse of a new world for so many, has turned her back, perhaps rejecting these lost souls or else protecting them....Andrew Riley’s design makes that apartment ready for a refurb, with floorboards in need of a sand-down and dry, dead leaves on the floor. The four actors slide a rusted steel door closed as if shutting themselves away, and stare out at the world through huge windows. It works beautifully. 

Variety

★★★★

..a handsomely designed production by Andrew Riley, placing the four performers in a realistic New York apartment overlooking the Statue of Liberty. Londontheatre1.co.uk

The Stage ★★★★

Whatsonstage ★★★★

British theatre ★★★★

Musical theatre review.com ★★★★

Casa Valentina | Southwark Playhouse

★★★★

A remarkable true story is given a poignant and deeply compassionate public airing, throwing a vivid human spotlight on a need that is deeply private yet yearns to be publicly expressed. 

The Stage

★★★★★

 Andrew Riley provides clever and suitably charming costumes on a shoestring budget, but they all work, especially the ensembles which make Gloria (Ashley Robinson) and Charlotte (Gareth Snook) formidable as types.

Britishtheatre.com

Andrew Riley’s period costumes and Harry Blake’s evocative Sixties soundscape contribute to a heartfelt Luke Sheppard production that captures the compassion of this well-meaning but flawed play. 

Arts Desk

Whats on Stage ★★★★

Time Out (Critics Choice) ★★★★

Attitude ★★★★★