London's Theatre Museum Gets Celebrity Support

As one reads about uninviting spaces I am tempted to recall the early years of Sam Wanamaker’s Bear Gardens Museum. No heat in the winter, overcoated guides shrouded in mufflers, dust as thick as that in a backstage prop cabinet. On top of that a location that stood your hair on end—if you could find it at all. With patience, fortitude, and imagination museums can flourish. If the current space is too unwieldy to fix, perhaps a more congenial West End space can be found to house this repository for one of London’s most famous and lucrative attractions—the live theatre. For a current update on the controversy check the online version of STAGE.