James Roose-Evans obituary
Founder director of the Hampstead theatre club who brought landmark productions to the London stageJames Roose-Evans, the founding 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 Noël Coward's Private Lives in the new Hampstead theatre " a P…