Stuart King
26 Mar
Reviews 
Review: THE WOMEN OF LLANRUMNEY at Theatre Royal, Stratford East
By Stuart King Wednesday, March 26 2025, 16:55
In a direct transfer from Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre, Azuka Oforka’s debut play THE WOMEN OF LLANRUMNEY is set at a grand but faded plantation home overlooking Jamaica’s Blue Mountains.
The cast of The Women of Llanrumney at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Photo credit Chuko Cribb.
23 Mar
Reviews
Review: MAN IN THE MIRROR at Golders Green Hippodrome
By Stuart King Sunday, March 23 2025, 11:00
Proud use of the title of Michael Jackson’s famous hit song in naming this production, would suggest that the producers of MAN IN THE MIRROR are actively challenging and defying the rabid cancel culture movement and instead choose to celebrate the performances, songs and stage shows of the late The King of Pop.
Man in the Mirror
23 Mar
Reviews
Review: DOUBLE ACT at Southwark Playhouse
By Stuart King Sunday, March 23 2025, 10:55
Two actors, dressed alike, finishing each other’s sentences or talking over one another combatively, give the distinct impression that they emanate from the same head and that things have reached a point of no return. Today will be different. Today will be planned and it will be done right.
Oliver Maynard and Nick Hyde in Double Act at Southwark Playhouse. Photography by Tanya Pabaru.
22 Mar
Reviews
Review: THE SEAGULL at Barbican
By Stuart King Saturday, March 22 2025, 11:58
In the midst of the Russian countryside, with fold-away chairs ranged around the edge of a lake and a dense cornfield acting as a backdrop to aid playful entrances and exits, Chekhov’s classic THE SEAGULL is performed as you’ve never before experienced it.
Cate Blanchett in The Seagull at Barbican. Image by Richard Lakos
20 Mar
Reviews
Review: RETROGRADE at the Apollo Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, March 20 2025, 09:09
After playing the first besuited, black, on-screen doctor in No Way Out, the young Sidney Poitier is a hot property and on the verge of stardom. But this is 1955 and the studios have to place the concerns and considerations of their sponsors, front and centre.
Stanley Townsend (Mr Parks) & Ivanno Jeremiah (Sidney Poitier) in Retrograde at the Apollo Theatre. Credit - Marc Brenner.
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