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 Tuesday, February 4 2025, 08:47
Asa Butterfield has carved quite a niche for himself playing naively innocent and quirky misfits (notably in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and more recently as Otis in Sex Education). His one-man performance has largely sold-out the Riverside Studios where SECOND BEST opened this evening marking the young actor’s stage debut.
Asa Butterfield in Second Best. Photo Hugo Glendinning
By Stuart King Sunday, February 2 2025, 22:02
A thinly woven amalgamation of love stories centred around Harlem’s Cotton Club, form the basis for an evening of rumbustious hoofing and competitive lung blasting as PLAY ON! opens at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Play On!, Ensemble - Copyright Ciara Hillyer.
By Stuart King Friday, January 31 2025, 10:47
A cloying pungency of lavender oil permeates the Arcola’s subterranean stairway (and your nostrils), long before you reach the playing area. As you enter, a man (Matthew James Hinchliffe) plays a calmly resonant percussion instrument, as though we are about to enjoy a collective massage. Our meditation on the Jewish condition begins with the reflections of an elderly woman Miriam (Caroline Gruber) who we learn survived her harrowing adolescence in Bratislava.
Caroline Gruber in As Long As We Are Breathing at the Arcola Theatre. Copyright Lidia Crisafulli
By Stuart King Wednesday, January 29 2025, 10:26
Park Theatre presents the world premier of Dave Florez’ comedy drama THE GIFT, in which obsessive Colin is destined to fixate and generally unravel as a consequence of receiving a mysterious box through the mail… Or at least that is what his concerned sister Lisa and her partner Brian are convinced will happen, and they speak from considerable experience of Colin’s neurotic foibles.
Alex Price, Nicholas Burns and Laura Haddock in The Gift at Park Theatre. Credit Rich Southgate
By Stuart King Sunday, January 26 2025, 21:48
In January 2016, we lost an icon, a creative visionary, a trailblazer. For many (myself included) David Bowie was an extraordinary human being, if not a Demi-God. In the years which have passed since the release of Blackstar prior to his death, it has been easy to conclude that the world has become somehow tarnished, diminished by his sad demise aged 69 and the sequence of tumultuous global events which have occupied the timeline since.
The Bowie Show
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