Cakes and Ale: Mr Robert Baddeley and his Twelfth Night Cakes
Cakes and Ale honours the life, times and legacy of an original director of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, Robert Baddeley
Nick Bromley has a theatre career spanning some six decades, which has taken him from London to Lublyana and back again.
He trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama before its regal elevation; working in rep and on tour before his first London engagement in 1966.
He has been Company Stage Manager since 1971 and has worked on many musicals and plays in the West End, with shows such as The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Love Never Dies to his name.
Nick Bromley is the sixteenth Master of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, founded by David Garrick in 1766, and a member of both the Ghost Club and the Society for Psychical Research.
Nick has authored two plays for children, Lotte Moore : A Child’s War and Meet the Teaspoons!, both originally produced at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick.
You can peruse and purchase his collection of books in our online shop.
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Stage Ghosts and Haunted Theatres
For ghost-hunting theatre lovers and theatre-loving ghost hunters, Stage Ghosts and Haunted Theatres is the must-have addition to every bookshelf.
Words of praise
Michael Coveney
Theatre Critic
"Stage Ghosts and Haunted Theatres is one of the most pleasurably dipping into theatrical reads for a long time."
Gyles Brandreth
Writer, Broadcaster & Actor
"Absorbing, intriguing, spooktacular - this is my kind of theatre book, rich in history, great names, wonderful stories and stuff I never knew before."
Michael Simkins
Actor
"A spirited and amusing sideways look at the
inner workings of the business of show."
Richard O'Brien
Actor
“...an educative and entertaining journey
that will, I assure you, elicit a smile
and the occasional spooky,
goose-bumps moment.”
Simon Callow
Actor
"This is the theatre as it really is.
It may come as a bit of a surprise."