Stuart King
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.
14 Mar
Reviews
Review: THE MOSINEE PROJECT at New Diorama
By Stuart King Friday, March 14 2025, 08:36
Positioned amidst the glazed office buildings of Euston, The New Diorama Theatre has become something of a breeding ground for new and inventive theatre talents. This week the venue plays host to THE MOSINEE PROJECT.
The Mosinee Project at New Diorama Theatre. © David Monteith-Hodge
13 Mar
Reviews
Review: THE LITTLE PRINCE at London Coliseum
By Stuart King Thursday, March 13 2025, 10:47
As a banned writer and well-travelled man, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry created The Little Prince in 1943 (a year before his death) possibly as an anti-Fascist social commentary. The aviator-come-author-come-
The Little Prince at London Coliseum.
12 Mar
Reviews
Review: WEATHER GIRL at Soho Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, March 12 2025, 10:52
It’s clear that WEATHER GIRL’s writer Brian Watkins, feels warm and fuzzy when he contemplates Darwin’s theory of natural selection! Fires are raging in California and our intrepid weather girl Stacey (Julia McDermott) is on location, delivering sunshine smiles in front of a burning homestead. We later learn that the charred ruins were home to a family of climate change deniers who believed the fire department’s evacuation warnings were a government conspiracy. QED!
Julia McDermott in Weather Girl. Pamela Raith Photography
11 Mar
Reviews
Review: FAREWELL MISTER HAFFMANN at Park Theatre
By Stuart King Tuesday, March 11 2025, 09:42
It’s a truth universally acknowledged among theatre critics, that if the seat from which you review a production on press night induces a pain in the neck (quite literally), it will likely have a demonstrable impact on your enjoyment of the production. Such was the unfortunate truth of my 41st review assignment at Park Theatre last evening, where I was scheduled to see FAREWELL MISTER HAFFMANN.
Nigel Harman (Otto Abetz) and Jemima Rooper (Suzanne Abetz) in Farewell Mister Haffmann. Photography Mark Senior.
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