Lee Newby has transformed the area into a replica of Joe Allen's, a famous theatre restaurant in New York (we have one here too in London, where you can get money off food after the performance if you show your ticket). The russet brick walls and framed photos of stars and posters of musicals gone by are familiar to anyone who has dined there, and there are even seats at dinner tables for the audience to sit at to get even closer to the action.