James Roose-Evans, founder director of the Hampstead theatre club, who has died aged 94, was a unique link between the flourishing interwar London theatre club scene and the new, off-West End small-theatre phenomenon of the 1960s.His 1963 revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives in the new Hampstead theatre a rudimentary Portakabin erected as a temporary home but which lasted 40 years signalled what Coward himself dubbed Dad's renaissance; the following year, the National Theatre's revival of Hay Fever restored Coward's waning reputation.
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