Stuart King
24 Mar
Reviews 
Review: STRAIGHT LINE CRAZY at the Bridge Theatre
By Stuart King Thursday, March 24 2022, 08:59
Ordinarily, the winning combination of a new David Hare play with the presence of a bona fide movie star like Ralph Fiennes assuming its lead role, would set pulses racing and box office tills ringing. But whilst the run may have virtually sold-out before it opened due to the star’s cachet, the piece is something of a didactic dirge with only momentary flashes of levity and pathos. It’s a far cry from the playwright’s heady power-output of “Racing Demon”, “Amy’s View”, “Plenty” and “Pravda”, which now feel like very distant successes by comparison.
Dani Moseley as Carol Amis in Straight Line Crazy at the Bridge Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
21 Mar
Reviews
Review: CINDERELLA at the Gillian Lynne Theatre
By Stuart King Monday, March 21 2022, 08:58
Easily eclipsing all competition for the campest spectacle in the West End, is Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Cinderella playing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre (formerly the New London which was renamed in honour of the choreographer whose work on Cats ran at the theatre for 21 years between 1981 - 2002).
Carrie Hope Fletcher, Laura Baldwin, Victora Hamilton-Barritt, and Georgina Castle in Cinderella, Photo Credit Tristram Kenton.
16 Mar
Reviews
Review: STEVE AND TOBIAS VERSUS DEATH at the Pleasance Theatre
By Stuart King Wednesday, March 16 2022, 11:02
When brothers Tobias and Steve learn that their mother was patient zero in a world now possessed of flesh-eating zombies, they are forced to patch their differences whilst caring for her and fending-off the seemingly endless onslaught from those outside wanting to get in.
15 Mar
Reviews
Review: COSI FAN TUTTE at English National Opera, London Coliseum
By Stuart King Tuesday, March 15 2022, 11:04
ENO’s 2014 staging of Mozart’s last Opera buffa collaboration with librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte has been dusted-off for another outing, but the production’s faded 1950s Coney Island funfair and motel setting (courtesy of set designer Tom Pye) hasn’t aged especially well — despite some cast members’ valiant attempts at resuscitation.
Nardus Williams and Amitai Pati in ENO's 2022 Così Fan Tutte. Photo Lloyd Winters.
04 Mar
Reviews
Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE at Adelphi Theatre
By Stuart King Friday, March 4 2022, 08:08
The high octane freneticism of the movie has been neatly translated into a theatrical experience with all the whimsical exuberance of the original — plus a few added layers of corny in-jokes, fantastic special effects and of course, tightly choreographed musical dance numbers.
Olly Dobson as Marty McFly in Back to the Future the Musical
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