Rosemary Squire & Howard Panter interview: Kiss Me Kate (The Times)

After creating the Ambassador Theatre Group, Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire left that stage to tread the boards again with a business out for growth

Like a well-rehearsed theatrical double act, Sir Howard Panter and Dame Rosemary Squire, the married power couple of London’s West End, have developed a habit of finishing each other’s sentences.

Squire is excitedly telling me about an influx of musicals that have either arrived, or are on their way to the theatre district — “MJ, Mean Girls, The Devil Wears Prada, all of those” — when Panter, in the manner of a husband reminding his wife that they’ve run out of milk, chimes in with: “Kiss Me, Kate, don’t forget.”