Since retiring as a musical theatre performer, Stuart has maintained a busy professional career in commercial sectors ranging from media and sport, to risk management. As a member of the Critics’ Circle, he regularly attends and reviews press nights for drama productions, musicals, opera and dance.
By Stuart King Friday, June 13 2025, 11:11
James Baldwin’s 1956 novel Giovanni’s Room in which a young American man tentatively explores his bisexuality while in Paris, was deemed so contentious and controversial that his publishers believed it would end the young writer’s burgeoning literary career.
Inside Giovanni's Room. Photo Drew Forsyth
By Stuart King Thursday, June 12 2025, 14:15
For anyone of my era, Live Aid challenged our parent’s Woodstock as the once in a generation, popular culture milestone. Forty years on and JUST FOR ONE DAY revisits and recreates the excitement, passion and urgency inherent in staging the 1985 events, which raised funds to save millions from starvation in Africa.
Tim Mahendran and the cast of Just For One Day. Photo credit Evan Zimmerman.
By Stuart King Wednesday, June 11 2025, 23:05
Martin Storrow has evidently poured much personal experience of tragedy into his original musical KING OF PANGEA which has began its short run at King’s Head this week, having been in development since before 2019.
Mark Curry (Elijah) and Alfie Blackwell (Sam Crow) in King of Pangea at King’s Head Theatre. Credit Steve Gregson
By Stuart King Tuesday, June 10 2025, 11:21
Michinari Ozawa’s OUR COSMIC DUST, adapted and translated by Susan Momoko Hingley, has breezed into the Park Theatre for a run until 5th July.
Our Cosmic Dust at Park Theatre. © Pamela Raith Photography
By Stuart King Sunday, June 8 2025, 09:36
Danny James King’s much anticipated MISS MYRTLE’S GARDEN opened this week at Bush Theatre. A funny, yet jarring and resonant family drama, it looks at the impact of a feisty matriarch’s cognitive decline, as past traumas and memories haunt her enjoyment of a placid and calm garden setting.
Left to right: Mensah Bediako (Melrose), Diveen Henry (Miss Myrtle), Gary Liburn (Eddie) in Miss Myrtle's Garden at Bush Theatre. Photo by Camilla Greenwell.
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