The BBC reports that the Royal Shakespeare Company is moving to the Albery Theatre in Soho. This is good news.
One of the interesting aspects of British cultural life has been a sort of theatrical highbrow/lowbrow apartheid--crowd-pleasing tourist shows like musicals predominate in the West End, while classic and experimental theatre happen on the South Bank or elsewhere. What we tended to find was that the commercial productions were excellent, though the scripts were not always so compelling; while the classic and avant-garde shows, while more thought-provoking, were generally not as well-staged or acted.
Moving Shakespeare cheek-by-jowl with Andrew Lloyd Webber might liven things up a bit, all round.
