London Doesn’t Need Any More Theatres, So Stop Building Them

Mark Shenton: “I saw it argued on Twitter that, with London’s ever-expanding population, there’s a need to expand theatrical provision to meet the possible demand; but we’re nowhere near reaching capacity on the venues we already have. And surely the more venues there are, the more it will dissipate the existing audience. … I suspect a lot of the new theatre ‘builds’ (conversions of pop-ups) are driven by something else.”