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 Wednesday, March 5 2025, 08:19
WHITE ROSE THE MUSICAL plays at Marylebone Theatre until 13 April, that is, assuming the cast’s voices hold out and they aren’t hospitalised due to a surfeit of melancholy and over earnestness.
The cast of White Rose. Photo Marc Brenner.
By Stuart King Tuesday, March 4 2025, 11:12
We discover Violet and Leonard in a hotel room during the war — April 1942 in fact — the night before he is due to be shipped off. Their inexperience and nervousness around each other, betrays thoughts of more portentous matters which must surely have overshadowed and overwhelmed many a young couple wanting to express their love and commitment for each other before the inevitable separation.
Cassie Bradley and Barney White in One Day When We Were Young at Park Theatre. Credit Danny Kaan.
By Stuart King Friday, February 28 2025, 12:10
As with all of Wayne McGregor’s new works, DEEPSTARIA has been a hotly awaited dance piece with its much vaunted dark voids and mysterious spaces igniting an anticipatory buzz and collective salivation among dance aficionados. Sadly, what was presented at Sadler’s Wells Thursday evening opener, was a ponderous primordial soup which managed to plumb the depths of tedium, irrespective of the dancers’ best efforts.
Wayne McGregor's Deepstaria, Company Wayne McGregor, Photo credit Ravi Deepres.
By Stuart King Thursday, February 27 2025, 16:39
What happens when you put three of yesteryear’s British comedy giants in the same room? Well obviously they tell jokes, rib each other, engage in banter and reminisce. Such is the premise of THE LAST LAUGH in which Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse find themselves backstage sharing a dressing room.
THE LAST LAUGH at Noël Coward Theatre. Bob Golding (Eric Morecambe), Damian Williams (Tommy Cooper) and Simon Cartwright (Bob Monkhouse). Photo Pamela Raith.
By Stuart King Saturday, February 22 2025, 17:09
In a daring and challenging exploration of what it means to be a woman, the Almeida’s recent opening delves into the complexities of relationships where one partner feels the overwhelming need to assume their true self through transitioning.
Otherland by Chris Bush at the Almeida Theatre. Fizz Sinclair and Jade Anouka. Credit Marc Brenner
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