Steve Rich, webmaster of Theatremonkey, the independent site best known for its West End theater seating charts and the seat-by-seat theatergoer critiques that go with them, has now culled the best of its insider advice into a well-organized, fits-in-a-purse, really useful guide to just about everything a consumer needs to know, venue by venue, about London theater. The book also outlines and explains how to find out what's on where and what to see, the ins and outs of booking seats, avoiding touts (a k a scalpers), how to get cheap seats, how to get free seats and how to score seats to sold-out shows. It has the easiest to use map of what Londoners call Theatreland that I've seen. know that less than two weeks after publication, this book made it into the Amazon-UK top 500--and has been getting excellent press on its side of the pond, including an especially good 11/12/09 review from the Evening Standard's chief arts correspondent Louise Jury. --Cat. derived review via Amazon.com.