
Stuart King


Review: DOUBLE ACT at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Sunday, March 23 2025, 10:55
Two actors, dressed alike, finishing each other’s sentences or talking over one another combatively, give the distinct impression that they emanate from the same head and that things have reached a point of no return. Today will be different. Today will be planned and it will be done right.
Oliver Maynard and Nick Hyde in Double Act at Southwark Playhouse. Photography by Tanya Pabaru.


Review: THE SEAGULL at Barbican
By Stuart King Saturday, March 22 2025, 11:58
In the midst of the Russian countryside, with fold-away chairs ranged around the edge of a lake and a dense cornfield acting as a backdrop to aid playful entrances and exits, Chekhov’s classic THE SEAGULL is performed as you’ve never before experienced it.
Cate Blanchett in The Seagull at Barbican. Image by Richard Lakos


Review: RETROGRADE at the Apollo Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, March 20 2025, 09:09
After playing the first besuited, black, on-screen doctor in No Way Out, the young Sidney Poitier is a hot property and on the verge of stardom. But this is 1955 and the studios have to place the concerns and considerations of their sponsors, front and centre.
Stanley Townsend (Mr Parks) & Ivanno Jeremiah (Sidney Poitier) in Retrograde at the Apollo Theatre. Credit - Marc Brenner.


Review: THE MOSINEE PROJECT at New Diorama
By Stuart King Friday, March 14 2025, 08:36
Positioned amidst the glazed office buildings of Euston, The New Diorama Theatre has become something of a breeding ground for new and inventive theatre talents. This week the venue plays host to THE MOSINEE PROJECT.
The Mosinee Project at New Diorama Theatre. © David Monteith-Hodge


Review: THE LITTLE PRINCE at London Coliseum
By Stuart King Thursday, March 13 2025, 10:47
As a banned writer and well-travelled man, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry created The Little Prince in 1943 (a year before his death) possibly as an anti-Fascist social commentary. The aviator-come-author-come-
The Little Prince at London Coliseum.
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