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Underlying philosophy

Not tiers of service. Two different relationships to the room.

Each mode reflects a different level of involvement, authorship, and shared intent. Independence or partnership — either is right in the right context. We'll be honest with you about which is which.

Dry Hire+
Independence
Your show, your audience. You stay commercially responsible. We make the evening as seamless as it can be.
Presents
Partnership
A shared creative and commercial commitment. If we step in, we step in fully. The show becomes ours together.
Two ways in
Division one Bring your show An evening in front of an audience — Dry Hire+ or a Circle & Star co-production. Theatre hire → Division two Hire the space The room by the hour — rehearsal, teaching, a location shoot, a launch, a private evening. Daytime, events & private →

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Division one

Theatre Hire: bring your show to the Circle & Star

An evening in front of an audience. You bring a show, we open the doors, and the box office is the point. Two relationships to the room — pick the one that matches how much of it you want us in.

Dry Hire+ · Independence

Your show, your audience. We look after the evening.

Dry Hire+ is for artists and producers who bring their own audience. You concentrate on the show and on the people coming to see it — your following, your list, your press. We make the evening as seamless as it can be, from the first booking to the last bow.

“You bring the show and your audience. We make the evening seamless.”
Circle & Star adds
  • Your booking, live — every Dry Hire+ comes with its own private client portal: box office and sales data as they happen, your schedule and order, asset storage, and a conversation with the team that stays on the page rather than scattering across inboxes
  • Inclusion in the public-facing programme on circleandstar.com
  • Tickets via C&S Ticket Tailor — a credible, consistent booking URL. Buyers pay a 12% platform and service charge on top of your ticket price. Circle & Star receives it and pays the ticketing platform and card fees from it; it is never part of your box office
  • A designed show card in the C&S identity
  • A post and story on @circleandstartheatre, with a link to book
  • Inclusion in the monthly house-list email
  • Priority rebooking — first refusal on preferred future dates
The artist remains
  • Creatively independent — the work is yours, start to finish
  • Commercially responsible — you keep the net box office, less £2.50 for each paid ticket
  • Leading on audience and press — your following, your list, your publicity. Our listing and posts sit alongside yours; they don’t replace them
  • We'll need a short biography, a high-resolution image (min 1500px), and a show description. 4–6 weeks ahead; within 48hrs if the show is under a month away.

Dry Hire+ is not co-promotion. You bring the audience; we look after the room, the box office and the evening.

The right fit for most producers most of the time.
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Circle & Star Presents · Partnership · by invitation

This is not a hire.
This is co-creation.

Presents is where the relationship changes completely — a shared creative and commercial commitment between the artist and Circle & Star. The show becomes part of our programme. The audience is built collaboratively. The outcome is shared.

Steve Furst as Artistic Director. Justin Bovington as Producer. It signals to the audience one thing: this is a Circle & Star show.

"If we step in, we step in fully. We build it together."
Circle & Star contributes
  • Creative direction and positioning
  • Marketing strategy and execution
  • Audience development and tone
  • Integration into our programming identity
  • "Circle & Star Presents" billing
  • Box office settled within 14 days of the final performance — the net box office split as agreed, less £2.50 for each paid ticket from the artist's share. Buyers pay a 12% platform and service charge on top of the ticket price. Circle & Star receives it and pays the ticketing platform and card fees from it, outside the split
The artist contributes
  • The work
  • The performance
  • The authorship
  • A multi-night run — work that needs space to find its shape
  • Genuine collaborative spirit — open to creative input
  • This begins with a conversation with Steve and Justin — not an application form.

Presents is not "more marketing." It is co-creation — and a signal that the work belongs here.

If you think your work belongs here, tell us about it.
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At a glance · evening models
Dry Hire+ C&S Presents
Venue
55-seat fitted theatre✓★
GM on-site throughout✓★
Sound, lighting, projection✓★
Ticketing
Tickets via C&S Ticket Tailor✓★
Live listing on circleandstar.com✓★
Priority rebooking✓★
Marketing
Social announcement✓★
Designed show card✓★
Monthly house-list email✓★
Full campaign (Insta, audio, press)—★
"C&S Presents" billing—★
Creative
Artistic Director on the work—★
Producer on your team—★
Division two

Daytime · Events · Private Booking

The room itself, without a public audience. No tickets, no box office — you book the building for a stretch of time and pay for the time. Rehearse and teach in it by day, or take it privately for a shoot, a launch or an evening of your own.

Daytime · the room by the hour

The room, during the day.

Read-throughs, rehearsals, development sessions, workshops and courses, technical calls — and on-location filming, brand launches and corporate days. Same room, same infrastructure, same standard, with the daytime quiet of Hampstead around it.

Best for
  • A professional environment in the heart of accessible Hampstead
  • Full-company rehearsals with a proper stage
  • Workshopping, teaching, courses and instruction
  • Technical calls ahead of an evening performance
  • Recording and filming with controlled sound
  • On-location filming, brand launches and corporate days — with crew and an invited party
What's included
  • Full building access for the confirmed session
  • House sound, lighting, projection at standard operational level
  • Piano available on request
  • Heating, air conditioning, all five bathrooms
  • The daytime window runs 9:30am to 5:30pm — a full day is up to those eight hours, a half day up to four of them, access to vacate. FOH and tech operator arrangeable at cost.
Our rates are tailored to the scale and nature of each production.
Independent & Small-Scale
For small businesses, personal projects and productions working with limited budgets.
Half day £350 · full day £475
Commercial & Production
For corporate clients, on-location filming and brand launches.
Half day £550 · full day £750
Half day is up to 4 hours, full day up to 8. Additional time is charged at £65 per hour. A closed working session holds up to 25 in the building, doors shut; a day with a crew, an invited party or filming for release holds up to 55.
Tell us what the day is, and we'll tell you which tier it sits in.
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Event · private hire

Circle & Star, May 2026 — the SKYE BISHOP · FEELINGS residency. Each night a variant on a theme: audience and outcomes. Over 330 people. A conversation versus a cold launch.

The Circle & Star frontage on Heath Street, display cases carrying images from the show
Heath Street, on the day — the frontage carries the show.
Rows of seats in the auditorium, each carrying a printed record sleeve
Fifty-five seats, and a record on every one of them.
The stage dressed as a bedroom, walls papered with photographs, a band playing
The room papered floor to ceiling, a bed built on the stage.
The artist on stage with a microphone in front of the show artwork
Six nights, one artist, a different shape each time.
The residency artwork — the artist on the set bed, titled SKYE BISHOP FEELINGS
The residency carried its own artwork, night to night.
A prop telephone and scattered clothes on the edge of the stage
Dressed down to the telephone on the stage lip.
The artist signing records for audience members after the show
Afterwards — the artist, the record, the room.
The theatre bathrooms, mirrors written on, framed images on the wall
The takeover carries through to the bathrooms.
An audience watching the large screen, armchairs set on the stage
And on another night, the same room is a screening.
Hire Out · events & private use

A brand launch. A private screening. A salon evening.

The room on its terms, not a show's. A cinematic, intimate, character-filled space for non-theatre use — evening, or the whole building for the day. A shoot or a brand day that fits inside the daytime window, on its own, is simpler and cheaper as a Commercial & Production daytime hire above.

Best for
  • Brand launches and product reveals
  • Private screenings and press previews
  • Editorial and content shoots
  • Invite-only salons, panels, and conversations
  • Intimate private dinners and receptions (15–55)
What we offer
  • Full building: theatre, mezzanine, bar, bathrooms
  • House sound, lighting, projection — cinema-grade
  • Bar operation available on request
  • Catering partners on call
  • Discreet service, serious standards. Every booking scoped one-to-one — no two events are the same.
Rates on enquiry — scope varies by format and duration.
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Alexis Arenas, make-up designer, who leads the masterclass
Case study · day hire

Ongoing masterclass training

Training, learning and development in a proper theatre — a historic building in the heart of Hampstead, given over to you for the day. Arrival is part of it: people walk in knowing the day matters. And with fifty-five seats there is no back row, so every attendee is close enough to take part rather than watch.

More Than Makeup →
Circle & Star Theatre — 28 Heath Street, Hampstead NW3

Circle & Star is not
a venue for hire.
It is a room of proximity.

Circle & Star: more than just a theatre, a place to be.

INDEPENDENCE.
PARTNERSHIP.
A 55-seat theatre in Hampstead where audience, artist and atmosphere are deliberately shaped. West End–quality sound and vision. Every seat close. Every seat good.

Every show enters the space through one of two modes. Each mode reflects a different level of involvement, authorship, and shared intent — not tiers of service, but two different relationships to the room.

If you've read this and one of these feels like the right shape for your project, we'd rather start with a conversation than a price list.

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For people in active conversation with us.

The access code is shared directly once you're talking to Justin or Carri. No code? Read the page — then drop us a line.

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