Theatre Board Meet Up 24th June West End Live!!!

Happy to meet 25th before Matinee (Glass Menagerie), would love to put faces to names! Name your spot and I'll be there!

25th March it is then!

Now..... venue!

Shaping up nicely, so approximately which area works best for most people? Something central-ish? (Looking at specific locations mentioned above; people have mentioned theatres in the West End and South Bank.) If so, would somewhere in the NT foyer (upstairs or down) work? If not, what would others like to suggest? I'll be coming from the matinee at Hampstead & have yet to book my evening play/show so will plan round whichever location is chosen.

What do you mean I cant drink before the matinee??

The Frogs looks interesting

If you meet at the NT, there are plenty of choices round there (the foyer in the theatre, along with its bars), the Understudy Bar outside, along with the Green Room behind it next to the Rambert offices, the bar areas in the BFI and the Royal Festival Hall or Topolski under the arches of the bridge by the Festival Hall.

Still undecided on whether I want to go and see Mick Harvey at Under The Bridge on the evening of the 25th, so not sure what times I could make it, but otherwise my day is pretty much open plan (might have a look on Today Tix closer to the time so see what is available).

But, but, but if you have it in the Understudy Bar, people might be tempted to, oh I don't know, have a drink or something! How dreadful. Best to have it in Starbucks I reckon. No alcohol. And the wifi is free.

Higher prices or poor choices could discourage me from drinking. If its attached to a theatre both points could be correct. Happy to meet there at some point in the day though. Does anyone who has used it have any idea on prices

I haven't been in the Understudy Bar for a few months, but I think it was somewhere in the area of 4 to 5 pounds for a bottle of beer, which is the going rate for all of the bars and pubs around there (only other Wetherspoons in Central London apart from that one in Victoria to the best of my knowledge is the one on Charing Cross Road, but that's only handy for those planning on seeing The Girls, Aladdin or Harry Potter)

Hmmm, I'd give all the bars in Leicester Square a miss (I say all, there's only the 'Spoons, the All Bar One and that hotel on the South side), they'll be packed all day and they're not exactly classy.

I can report that the Understudy bar at the National does coffee too! And has comfy sofas! Would be happy to meet there pre matinee.....

Great to see a suggestion that people seem happy with but what's the noise level like in the Understudy Bar, please? I never go in bars or pubs anyway (which was partly why I suggested somewhere that isn't one itself but for those who want alcohol has those options close at hand, i.e. the NT foyer) but my big issue with them is being deafened by a wall of sound and simply unable to hear people speak.

Normally lack of seating is also a deterrent (when you get older, you may have both a greater need to sit and and lesser ability to filter out background noise), but that has been addressed by the mention above of comfortable settees. If I'm going to the Young Vic or Soho Theatre, for instance, I won't wait in the bar area - which unfortunately means lurking in the small foyer despite the efforts of the staff to direct me to the bar - because the noise level feels almost like a physical onslaught.

Don't remember them playing any music in there, and if there was, nothing deafening, its always busy in there but I would have thought, like most places along the river, there'll be a lot of people in there with their children on a Saturday afternoon so seating might be at a premium.