
Stuart King


Review: MUSIK at Leicester Square Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 12 2020, 10:45
Jonathan Harvey’s egomaniacal creation Billie Trix — self-proclaimed icon, rock-star and screen-goddess — hits the stage again, nearly 20 years after Frances Barber first inhabited the outrageous character in Closer to Heaven. “I Am Art” she declares - and who are we to argue?
Frances Barber as Billie Trix in MUSIK by Pet Shop Boys and Jonathan Harvey. Photo Marc Brenner.


Review: THE HAYSTACK at Hampstead Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, February 11 2020, 11:02
The new Artistic Director of Hampstead Theatre Roxana Silbert, marks her directing debut for the house with a scorchingly delivered exposé of our national security eavesdroppers and what happens when their unfettered access to personal data, reveals more than they expect.
Sarah Woodward (Hannah), Oliver Johnstone (Neil) and Enyi Okoronkwo (Zef) in The Haystack at Hampstead Theatre. Photo credit Ellie Kurttz.


Review: ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 5 2020, 09:01
Composer and librettist Gerald Barry, has concocted a surrealist world using as its basis, an amalgamation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. The result is a riotous, fast-paced, fantastically energetic, kaleidoscopic Wonderland, for all ages, (though perhaps not all ears)!


Review: PERSONA at The Riverside Studios
By Stuart King Thursday, January 30 2020, 23:00
Sister Alma (Olivier award winner, Alice Krige) is sent to a remote summer beach house tasked with helping renowned stage actress Elizabet (Nobuhle Mngcgweni) recover from a psychological breakdown and coax her from her self-imposed silence.
Alice Krige, William Close and Nobuhle Mngcwengi in Persona at the Riverside Studios. Photo by Pamela Raith.


Review: HAPPILY EVER POOFTER at the King’s Head Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, January 24 2020, 08:36
With the merest hint of a fairytale set, a flounce of frilly cuffs and staggering boots (which occasionally defy gravity), Richard Watkins’ is absolutely slaying ‘em at the King’s Head Theatre in his creation, HAPPILY EVER POOFTER.
Photo by Rah Petherbridge.
« previous articles - page 75 of 98 - next articles »