Stuart King
13 Nov
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Review: GOING FOR GOLD at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, November 13 2024, 14:05
Park Theatre’s smaller space currently plays host to GOING FOR GOLD, a sporting yarn in which the life of 1970s boxer Frankie Lucas (Jazz Lintott) is narrated through the experiences of the patient and loving mother of his young son. Later, we learn how career disappointment led to a period of bitter reflection and isolation, but that once again family support proved unquestioning and steadfast.
Jazz Lintott in Going For Gold at Park Theatre. Photo by James Potter
08 Nov
Reviews
Review: THE TALES OF HOFFMANN (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at Royal Opera House
By Stuart King Friday, November 8 2024, 09:02
Director Damiano Machieletto returns to the Royal Opera House with his new production of Offenbach’s THE TALES OF HOFFMANN which wowed audiences at Sydney Opera House in 2023. Here, he is once again joined by Antonello Manacorda who conducts — as he did with the director’s modern take on Carmen which premiered at Covent Garden back in April.
Juan Diego Flórez as Hoffmann in Damiano Michieletto's production of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, The Royal Opera ©2024 Camilla Greenwell
07 Nov
Reviews
Review: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON at Ambassadors
By Stuart King Thursday, November 7 2024, 00:01
Having already achieved considerable commercial and critical success as a movie, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1927 short story is given a new lease of life as THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON AN UNORDINARY MUSICAL and for the purposes, is re-located to a small fishing village on the North Cornwall coast.
The cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the Ambassadors Theatre. Photography by Marc Brenner
31 Oct
Reviews
Review: FEAR OF 13 at Donmar Warehouse
By Stuart King Thursday, October 31 2024, 21:34
In a West End that’s constantly bristling with big name performers, it’s a delight when a Hollywood star comes to visit — especially when it marks their London debut, and particularly when he is the youngest ever winner of the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Hard to imagine that Adrien Brody’s gong for The Pianist, was awarded over twenty years ago. How time flies.
The cast of The Fear of 13 at Donmar Warehouse. Photo credit Manuel Harlan.
30 Oct
Reviews
Review: DR STRANGELOVE at Noël Coward Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, October 30 2024, 08:51
Film director Stanley Kubrick’s savage and irreverent 1964 black comedy Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, tapped into the creeping paranoia of the Cold War and has become a timeless movie parody. Now for the first time, theatregoers have an opportunity to enjoy the spectacle of a crazed US Airforce General ordering a pre-emptive strike on the Russians in this West End production of the movie which has been co-adapted by Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley, (with the latter also serving as director) starring multiple BAFTA winner Steve Coogan.
Dr.Strangelove, Giles Terera (Turgidson) Steve Coogan (President Muffley), Tony Jayawardena (Bakov), Mark Hadfield (Faceman) Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Jefferson). Photo by Manuel Harlan.
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