THE HISTORY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE, LONDON, 1771-1903  by Richard L. Lorenzen. I...

Barney Norris’s new play EVENTIDE is currently on tour. His book To Bodies Gone, The Theatre of Peter Gill is a comprehensive and enjoyable portrait of one of the great, but slightly unsung, stalwarts of recent British theatre. It should be read by anyone aspiring to be a director, playwright or anyone who is passionate about theatre and craves insight into how plays work.

Mr Sher has a very easy, familiar style which is very enjoyable to read. The book is full of good stories, one of the funniest being about donning the Falstaff fat-suit for the first time and his concern about how he would be able, if at all, to pee while wearing it.

 with a foreword by Steven Berkoff. The Opera House in Cheltenham’s Regent Street opened in...