Polly Wittenberg has been in love with the theatre for many years. She remembers vividly the first Broadway show she attended, Peter Pan with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff; also hundreds of other fine performances since then. Most of the lousy performances she has forgotten. Throughout her years as an attorney and corporate executive, she took pleasure in spending several nights a week in the world of drama, comedy and music on the stage.

Since the late 1970s, she has been a regular visitor to London and has seen hundreds of additional performances across the pond. During a typical two-week trip to the UK she will take in 20 or more different shows. This is possible because matinees are regularly scheduled on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, even Tuesdays on occasion. She has become quite expert at filling all available theatre time slots during these journeys.

Since she retired from corporate life, Polly has relished the opportunity to spend even more evenings (and matinees) at Broadway, Off- and Off-Off productions, as well as the chance to visit London more frequently. She is particularly interested in comparing differences in style and substance of theatrical presentations on both sides of the Atlantic.

She is grateful to Darren Dalglish and Alan Bird for asking her to share her views with a circle wider than a few close friends and her diary.

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