Bright
Netflix
Quarry
Cinemax
"Like most crime shows, Quarry is sporadically enlivened by the eccentrics at its periphery, who're played in this case by veteran character actors such as Peter Mullan, Damon Herriman, Ann Dowd, Tom Noonan, and Happy Anderson, who casually upstage the leads and cumulatively suggest a netherworld that might be more fruitfully expanded."
-SlantMagazine.com
"Two final, quick things...First, the detective team of Ratliff and Olsen is not only not going away, but they have the potential to be quite entertaining. Happy Anderson and Josh Randall play off each other in a way I felt–even in what has, so far, been limited screen time–reminded me of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill; it’s probably, mainly, because of Happy Anderson’s magnificent beard, but I’m okay with that."
-ProjectFandom.com
-SlantMagazine.com
"Two final, quick things...First, the detective team of Ratliff and Olsen is not only not going away, but they have the potential to be quite entertaining. Happy Anderson and Josh Randall play off each other in a way I felt–even in what has, so far, been limited screen time–reminded me of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill; it’s probably, mainly, because of Happy Anderson’s magnificent beard, but I’m okay with that."
-ProjectFandom.com
As You Like It
Shakespeare Theatre of D.C.
"Happy Anderson, as Corin, a shepherd, has a powerful physicality and wonderful comic timing as he tries to discourage his friend Silvius who is head over heels in love with local shepherdess Phoebe."
-Sophia Howes, DC Metro Theater Arts
"For sheer comic effect, the team of Happy Anderson and Stephen Pilkington are hard to beat as the shepherds Corin and Silvius. Anderson's gruff authority brings to mind an amiable Henry VIII
(sans wives and axes)..."
-Andrew White, Broadway World
"...comic roles like Corin (Happy Anderson)...served [his] purpose with brilliance."
-Amanda N. Gunther, TheatreBloom
"As two shepherds, Happy Anderson (Corin) and Silvius bring a welcome elemental simplicity, in contrast to the more complicated courtiers."
-Barbara Tranin Blank, MD Theatre Guide
"For the record, four overlapping groups of people play against each other...Group four is the country people and the shepherd Corin is played by the engaging, scene-stealing Happy Anderson..."
-Karren LaLonde Alenier, The Dressing
-Sophia Howes, DC Metro Theater Arts
"For sheer comic effect, the team of Happy Anderson and Stephen Pilkington are hard to beat as the shepherds Corin and Silvius. Anderson's gruff authority brings to mind an amiable Henry VIII
(sans wives and axes)..."
-Andrew White, Broadway World
"...comic roles like Corin (Happy Anderson)...served [his] purpose with brilliance."
-Amanda N. Gunther, TheatreBloom
"As two shepherds, Happy Anderson (Corin) and Silvius bring a welcome elemental simplicity, in contrast to the more complicated courtiers."
-Barbara Tranin Blank, MD Theatre Guide
"For the record, four overlapping groups of people play against each other...Group four is the country people and the shepherd Corin is played by the engaging, scene-stealing Happy Anderson..."
-Karren LaLonde Alenier, The Dressing
Emancipation
Classical Theatre of Harlem
"Mr. Anderson deserves praise for an uncompromising and highly physical performance in which he uses his hulking size as a kind of threat."
-Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
-Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
As You Like It
The Old Globe
"...That leaves things in the hands of her uncle, the capricious Duke Frederick (in a wonderfully blustery turn by Happy Anderson)."
-James Herbert, The San Diego Union-Tribune
-James Herbert, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Richard III
The Old Globe
"Many of the characters exist as set-ups for Richard’s schemes. The cast fleshes them out as best they can:
in particular Happy Anderson’s guilt-clogged Clarence..."
-Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
in particular Happy Anderson’s guilt-clogged Clarence..."
-Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader
The End
2007 New York International Fringe Festival
"He is fortunate, however, to be sharing the stage with Happy Anderson, whose fierce, determined (and all-too-brief) performance as Jacob suggests an angrier version of John Goodman's character in
The Big Lebowski."
-Eric Winick, NYTheatre.com
The Big Lebowski."
-Eric Winick, NYTheatre.com
Hurlyburly
The Firehouse Theater
"...Mr. Anderson gives a brilliant, relentless performance as the reeling, hyper, coked-up Eddie. He's an emotional and physical mess, disheveled and sweaty, ranting fast than he can think. After the play's first five minutes you think you can't survive his speed and noise and nonsense a second longer;
then you find yourself hanging on Anderson's every word and gesture as he exquisitely unfolds this vulnerable, pathetic character. Praise falls short; just see it."
-Barbara Adams, The Ithaca Times
then you find yourself hanging on Anderson's every word and gesture as he exquisitely unfolds this vulnerable, pathetic character. Praise falls short; just see it."
-Barbara Adams, The Ithaca Times
