The Shed in London Transcends the National Theater’s Shadow

NYTimes.com: Officially named the Royal National Theater, it is the epitome of British high culture, favoring a Burke’s Peerage-like roster of artists — Shakespeare and Marlowe, Michael Frayn and Alan Bennett, John Gielgud and Helen Mirren — many of whom have been made knights and dames by the queen. The National’s three stages (and West End hits like “War Horse” and “One Man, Two Guvnors”) have never been more popular, with about 1.5 million theatergoers in London in the 2012-13 season compared with 817,000 four years earlier.