Stuart King
13 Dec
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Review: NUTCRACKER at London Coliseum
By Stuart King Friday, December 13 2024, 08:30
Tchaikovsky’s perennial Christmas favourite THE NUTCRACKER once again graces London’s West End as it has in one form or another, most years since the end of the Second World War.
English National Ballet in Nutcracker by Aaron S. Watkin and Arielle Smith (C) Johan Persson
12 Dec
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Review: SWAN LAKE at Sadler’s Wells
By Stuart King Thursday, December 12 2024, 09:15
Six years since it was last revived and a full thirty since Matthew Bourne’s mostly-male masterpiece jetéd into the public consciousness, New Adventures’ SWAN LAKE is back with a cadre of fresh, young, powerful and energised dance talents who have been honed into a dynamic and sensuous troupe by the man himself.
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. Nicole Kabera (The Queen) and Company. Photo Johan Persson.
06 Dec
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Review: BETTE AND JOAN at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, December 6 2024, 10:51
Either side of a partition wall, and many years after their respective heydays, the feuding grand dames of 1930s-40s Hollywood, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, break the fourth wall and reminisce as they prepare to go on set to film the early 1960s schlocker Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Greta Scacchi (Joan) and Felicity Dean (Bette) in Bette & Joan at Park Theatre. Photo Simon Annand
06 Dec
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Review: THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA at Dominion Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, December 6 2024, 00:01
It was a best-selling novel which spawned a blockbuster movie. Now, the writing team of Elton John, Shaina Taub, Mark Sonnenblick and Kate Wetherhead have waved their collective sartorial wand to bring us a riotous West End runway in the form of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA as a musical. So, have the months of hype and pre-publicity been justified?
The Devil Wears Prada at the Dominion Theatre.
30 Nov
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Review: JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: WHAT A WHOPPER! at Charing Cross Theatre
By Stuart King Saturday, November 30 2024, 10:42
The smutty jokes and campy asides come thick and fast (apologies, I just had to) as the He’s Behind You team present their follow-up to last year’s rip-roaring adult panto success (Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick!) with their spin on the family favourite which sees an athletic-but-dim lad clambering eagerly atop something which has grown enormous over night!
Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper What A Whopper - Laura Buhagiar, Keanu Adolphus Johnson, Laura Anna-Mead, Fin Walton - credit Steve Gregson
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