Stuart King
28 May
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Review: THE FROGS at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 28 2025, 22:21
If it weren’t a Sondheim show, you’d think it the height of pretension that any modern creative would choose to turn a 2,400 year old story by Aristophanes, into a musical.
The cast of The Frogs at Southwark Playhouse. Photo Pamela Raith
27 May
Reviews
Review: MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION at Garrick Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 27 2025, 10:22
George Bernard Shaw it seems, continues to divide opinion. Any revivals of his work invariably elicit strong assertions from those who perceive a throbbing visceral combativeness, whilst others sense only dullness. With Imelda Staunton headlining MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION at the Garrick opposite her real life daughter Bessie Carter, surely this once-banned warhorse from 1893 would draw both critical and box office success?
Bessie Carter (Vivie Warren) in Mrs Warren's Profession - credit Johan Persson.
22 May
Reviews
Review: LITTLE BROTHER at Jermyn Street Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, May 22 2025, 11:42
In what must count as one of the more unusual pieces of theatre currently available to Londoners, the diminutive subterranean stage at Jermyn Street basks in the russets and orange sand colours of North Africa for a beguiling human interest piece titled LITTLE BROTHER.
The cast of Little Brother at Jermyn Street Theatre. Photo by Steve Gregson.
21 May
Reviews
Review: SHUCKED at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, May 21 2025, 14:23
It’s sweet, it’s corny, it’s sweetcorn-y. SHUCKED is just about everything you could want from a rustic, playful musical, nestled amidst the enveloping environs of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Matthew Seadon-Young as Gordy and Georgina Onuorah as Lulu in Shucked at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. © Pamela Raith.
20 May
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Review: THE FIFTH STEP at @sohoplace
By Stuart King Tuesday, May 20 2025, 12:29
A young man is having difficulties with alcohol, finding a job, and exercising control over his time-filler addiction to porn. Well, we were all young once! Part redemptive exorcism of his earlier life, THE FIFTH STEP marks David Ireland as one of our most consistently sensitive writers of roles for modern misfits in black comedy settings.
Martin Freeman in rehearsals for The Fifth Step. Photo by Johan Persson
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