DAILY FIBER FILMS
"Daily Fiber Films pairs Ryan Gould behind the camera and Raymond McAnally in front of it, and so far, this pairing is comedy delicious."
THE REVIVAL (Theatre- world premiere)
"Raymond McAnally brings natural comedic buoyancy to church member and good ol' boy Trevor."
Judith Jarosz ,NYTHEATRE.COM
"A mesmerizing turn as Trevor... plays Trevor with a deceptive simplicity."
Posted by JScott on September 11, 2010
reviewsoffbroadway2.com
"McAnally’s Trevor is immediately recognizable to anyone who grew up as a Southern Baptist..."
a good ol’ boy who thinks God personally takes an interest in his life. "Article: Can I Get an Amen?- The Revival’ refuses to simply preach to the choir of NYC audiences
NY Press.com
"...the cast deliver electrifying performances. Each actor successfully embodies a recognizable Southern personality."
without falling victim to stereotypes... Supercharged production."
"McAnally, as the redneck Christian who can have a religious experience gutting a deer gives the play its much needed comic relief. He’s chilling, however, when he violently beats Daniel
and ties him up in what he obviously considers doing the Lord’s work...
DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN (National Tour)
“ [Raymond McAnally's] pantomime of a guy fishing trip is one of the funniest things I've ever seen."
-Houstonartsweek 06/06/2009
"The
audience at the DECC, though, roared with laughter throughout Raymond
McAnally's roughly 100-minute solo routine… a first-rate standup comic’s
sense of timing and talent for mimicry…
having everybody else in the place hooting and shrieking with ge…”
-Duluth News Tribune 04/19/2009
THE FOREIGNER at Cincinnati Playhouse
"The word gag is funny, but what makes it utterly endearing is that Ellard (delightfully embodied by McAnally), who is constantly shouted at and talked down to, finally gets to be the smart one.-
The Cincinnati Enquirer 03/13/2009
"Newcomer
Raymond McAnally is sly and on target as a waysmarter-than-he-seems
handyman. He ignites the play's funniest sequences when he thinks he's
teaching Charlie to read."
-Citybeat 03/18/2009
SA KA LA (U.S. Premiere)
"Frank Harts and Raymond McAnally, the two fine actors who play Henning
and Johannes respectively, generate a lot of laughs with their arch
delivery..."
-BlogCritics.org by Jon Sobel 09/08/2009
MERE MORTALS at Two River Theatre
"The evening resembles an extraordinary episode of Saturday Night
Live... McAnally's innocent face makes his corrupting almost every
exchange all the more hilarious..."
- Newark Star Ledger, NJ USA
By Peter Filichia
“McAnally brings a sweet Chaplinesque quality to [Degas C’est Moi]...
A crackerjack cast delivers each play to maximum effect. Each actor
creates a gallery of distinctively amusing characters."
TALKIN’ BROADWAY.COM
GOD'S EAR (Off Broadway)
"The brilliantly written and staged "God's Ear" is an original and inventive theatrical experience...
"humor and whimsy pervade the current off-Broadway production at the
Vineyard Theatre... The actors move around fluidly, at a dreamlike
pace."
- 'God's Ear' explores a child's death By Jennifer Farrar
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"The
superbly realized production of "God's Ear" that opened Thursday Night
is the same one that was presented to much acclaim last year by the
adventurous Off Off Broadway..."
theater company New Georges.... All contribute fine work here..."
- The New York Times
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Published: April 18, 2008
"The excellent actors match the crazy energy of the dialogue."
- A CurtainUp Review By Jenny Sandman
highly original piece of art...
"The
cast is just plain marvelous... Raymond McAnally, pelts the characters
with rapid fire jokes that under other circumstances would be groaners,
but here, simply comprise a polished performance."
- nytheatre.com, Jo Ann Rosen · April 12, 2008
"All the actors have such remarkable range that the staggering scale of this script seems to be no trouble at all."
- http://thatsoundscool.blogspot.com/2008/04/gods-ear.html
playing BOTTOM in 'A Midsummer..."
Raymond
McAnally delivering a superb performance as Bottom... His scene in
which Pyramus dies is particularly delicious... McAnally dies in so
many resourceful ways that he should go on even longer."
- Newark Star Ledger - NJ, USA
playing SNUG in 'A Midsummer...'
at Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT
"The
finest of the mechanicals (and fairies) was the outsized SNUG, an
innocent giant whose meek manner, shamefast gestures, and soft, lisping
Tennessee twang.
made him an endearing joiner and a pussy-cat lion."
-Lawrence Manley, Yale University
THE BURIAL AT THEBES
at La MaMa E.T.C., New York, NY
"actor Raymond McAnally has wonderful comic timing and charm
in portraying his character as remarkably guileless and well-intentioned."
- nytheatre.com review Lauren Marks. January 27, 2007
"McAnally's scene would be good in any staging of the play...
In McAnally's best moment, the guard arranges members of the chorus to
represent parts of the landscape in the story he's telling."
"Here's your stick," he mutters as he hands one "Greek warrior" his staff between lines."
- By Sam Thielman Backstage.com February 01, 2007
McAnally crammed his lines with all the shades of wit, anxiety, confusion, and defiance that his minor role could handle.
He was easily the most natural performer of the bunch."
- New York Theatre Wire
Reviewed by Ellen W. Lytle Feb. 6, 2007