Stuart King
10 Oct
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Review: THE LEHMAN TRILOGY at Gillian Lynne Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, October 10 2024, 10:06
The National’s original production of Stefano Massini’s monumental three act play about the Lehman Banking dynasty, which retains Sam Mendes’ original direction and staging, has been afforded another West End outing. Opening this evening, with the cast which has recently been wowing audiences in San Francisco, the show’s capacity to impress through breadth of scope whilst never losing sight of intimate humanity, remains compelling.
The Lehman Trilogy 2024 at Gillian Lynne Theatre. L-R: Howard W Overshown, Aaron Krohn, John Heffernan © Mark Douet
09 Oct
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Review: EURYDICE at Jermyn Street Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, October 9 2024, 08:23
The Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice already has an oddly unsatisfying musical version in the West End, courtesy of HADESTOWN running at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. This quirky, much smaller-scale production simply entitled EURYDICE, plays at Jermyn Street Theatre on the opposite side of Piccadilly and offers an altogether different (certainly less musical, though not necessarily traditional) approach to the ancient tale.
Leyon Stolz-Hunter, Katy Brittain and Tom Morley in Eurydice at Jermyn Street Theatre. Photography by Alex Brenner.
08 Oct
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Review: FRENCH TOAST at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
By Stuart King Tuesday, October 8 2024, 08:40
FRENCH TOAST, a work by France’s acclaimed playwright Jean Poiret (renowned for “La Cage aux Folles”) has opened for a 3 week run at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios.
French Toast
07 Oct
Reviews
Review: LA BOHÈME at London Coliseum
By Stuart King Monday, October 7 2024, 14:44
Clelia Cafiero takes-up the baton to conduct this revival of Jonathan Miller’s 2009 staging of LA BOHÈME the tragic masterpiece by Giacomo Puccini who died exactly 100 years ago next month. The opera was premiered in 1896 at Turin and was an immediate success, remaining in the popular opera repertoire ever since. The simple story has spawned a number of other works, most notably Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical Rent.
Dingle Yandell, Patrick Alexander Keefe, Charles Rice, Paul Sheehan, Joshua Blue, ENO’s La boheme 2024 © Lloyd Winters
07 Oct
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Review: JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK at the Gielgud
By Stuart King Monday, October 7 2024, 00:01
Seán O’Casey’s oft-performed classic of the Dublin un-working, working-class, gets a refreshing revival courtesy of director Matthew Warchus, bolstered by an exceptionally tongue-in-cheek central performance from Mark Rylance as ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle.
Paul Hilton (Joxer Daly) & Mark Rylance ('Captain' Jack Boyle) in Juno and the Paycock at the Gielgud Theatre. Credit Manuel Harlan
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