Stuart King
Review: STANDING AT THE SKY’S EDGE at Gillian Lynne Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, February 29 2024, 13:35
Set on the once notorious Park Hill Housing Estate in Sheffield, this wonderful musical production is the very essence of community spirit, requiring a dynamic creative group effort during its development stages to reach fruition. The result is a show which literally shines bright at every performance.
Company of Standing at the Sky’s Edge © Johan Persson
Review: NACHTLAND at Young Vic
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 28 2024, 19:37
Boasting a cast of 6 accomplished performers and a painting purported to be by Hitler, Marius von Mayenburg’s NACHTLAND (with a translation by Mara Zade) is one of those plays which becomes evermore difficult to categorise as one considers the sometimes baffling elements from which it has been constituted. Perhaps… funny satire with considerable potential to trigger, will suffice.
John Heffernan & Jenna Augen in Nachtland at Young Vic © Ellie Kurtt
Review: HIR at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, February 23 2024, 15:12
Felicity Huffman‘s UK theatre debut as the freakishly controlling Paige in Taylor Mac's touchingly chaotic family drama HIR (pronounced here), serves as consummate lesson in how to effectively secrete a big persona into a small space without eclipsing everyone around you.
The cast of HIR at Park Theatre.
Review: HADESTOWN at Lyric Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, February 22 2024, 06:18
Winner of what now appears to be an overly generous clutch of 8 Tony Awards on Broadway, HADESTOWN by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell has finally made the leap across the pond to London's West End.
HADESTOWN, Lyric Theatre. Photo credit Marc Brenner
Review: DOUBLE FEATURE at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 21 2024, 07:41
John Logan is an experienced American playwright whose screen credits include Gladiator, The Aviator and Skyfall. His previous plays include Peter and Alice, and Red, so it was with a sense of excited anticipation that this reviewer headed to Hampstead Theatre for the press night of DOUBLE FEATURE.
Joanna Vanderham as Tippi Hedren and Ian Mcneice as Alfred Hitchcock in Double Feature. Credit Manuel Harlan
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