From The Bridge to King's Cross

I saw this, are they running before walking?

At least with them involved it is likely to open. Unlike, for example, the Collins Theatre development in Islington which Sally Greene spectacularly failed to complete. At the start of that saga the RSC expressed an interest in taking it on as a permanent London base, I wonder why they don’t seem interested in these new developments where they would have a chance to iinfluence the design at an early stage. The Battersea power station development is going to have a new theatre too.

I wonder if Hytner and Starr or Trafalgar Entertainment Group would be interesting in taking on the Collins Theatre?

Ian Price was in that production of Under Milk Wood, as was David McKail.

Quite, and the hotel that owns The Shaw is much happier putting conferences in rather than theatre shows for obvious reasons. 

With the 600 theatre opening at Tottenham Court Road Station in the next few years, looks like small West End houses will be in good supply. Of course that one was meant to be a 2000 seat live music venue as a direct replacement to the Astoria, but developers were able to change plans after they'd knocked down the historic venue. Gits. 

Is it? Why?

The only way we’d see a new 1400-1800 seat theatre in the West End is if they demolish an existing one or convert an existing property into a theatre

Something I thought about. Would be great have a modern theatre complex with 2 new theatres, you could have it with a couple of top notch restaurants, coffee shops and a champagne bar.

Could of build a couple of new medium size theatre where they just built the Legoland/Macdonalds on Leicester Square or the new complex next to the Cineworld Haymarket Cinema/Theatre. Also a new development on Charing Cross Road, just before the Palace Theatre has just gone up and looks very empty.

Come to think about it, they could tear down that dive hole of the Trocadero, great prime spot on Piccadilly Circus and bulid it there.

(If you click the heart again, it should remove the like.)

Because to get planning permission developers have to put in community facilities of some sort. Anyway, it is a badly served area for the arts with a ready audience just over the river in Chelsea etc. I think they’re putting a new tube extension to it too ?

Yes, I thought it was all dance there, so interesting to read that (I'm heading along there soon). Also in the area is the Platform Theatre at the back of St Martin's College, so very close to the proposed new theatre. Not a lot goes on at the Platform, though, and I'm yet to visit it.

The Shaw Theatre is becoming a producing house again - new theatre manager is introducing a six-week season next year, along with quarterly cabaret nights.
www.thestage.co.uk/news/2018/londons-shaw-theatre-to-produce-own-work-for-first-time/

(The article clarified that it’s for the first time since the 80s, not the first time ever)

Decent wine and decent toilets!

I would generally agree, but on my recent visit to Allelujah -which is staged in proscenium style - I did wonder what the sight lines were like in the upper balconies closest to the stage, although I assumed the seats were cheap.