‘It’s licensed touting, essentially’: has sky high ticket pricing turned London theatre into the wild West End?

Top ticket prices are up 50% in a year to an all time high. Whatever the cause – rising costs, celebrity casts, offsetting risk - could excluding audiences that theatre’s future depends on prove terminal? We talk to insiders…‘Theatres are taking the piss,” says 26-year-old aspiring actor and dedicated theatre fan Laurine. “I book tickets anyway, but hate myself for doing it.” Laurine relocated from France to London partly because of the promise of the W