Circle & Star
Hampstead · NW3
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What we're doing

The room is always
being made better.

Circle & Star opened in December 2025. Since then we've been building — the technology, the programming infrastructure, and the physical room. This is a live record of what's in the works. If something here matters to your show or production, ask us about it.

Arriving at 28 Heath Street
Arriving soon
Full-colour wash lighting
A new rig. The full spectrum, properly controlled. Atmosphere that matches the ambition of the work.
Arriving soon
100″ immersive screen
Full-width, ceiling-mounted, calibrated for 55 seats. Film, projection, live visual — the room becomes a canvas.
Full-colour wash lighting

The room just got a bigger palette.

We've upgraded to a full-colour wash rig. That means the entire space can be bathed in a single tone, shifted across a spectrum, or set to a static colour that serves your work — from warm candlelit amber to cold clinical white, or something far stranger.

This isn't a gimmick. It's infrastructure. The kind of atmospheric control that used to require a dedicated lighting designer on a complex rig is now standard at Circle & Star, available to every production that hires the room.

If your show has a world, we can now light it properly.


100″ immersive screen

Something significant is arriving at 28 Heath Street.

A 100-inch screen — full width, ceiling-mounted, integrated into the room. Not a projector on a white wall. A proper display surface, sized for 55 seats, calibrated for the intimate scale of what happens here.

What this makes possible: film sequences that aren't an afterthought. Backdrops that are part of the design, not an apology for the absence of one. Live visual performance. Documentary footage that lands with the weight it deserves. Immersive theatre that actually immerses.

We're talking to artists now about how to use it. If you have a show where the screen is part of the work — not a slide deck, but a creative element — we want to hear from you.


Technology
Building now
Live quiz system
Phones become part of the show. Every night a little more alive.
Building now
Membership model
Priority access before public sale. A named relationship with the room.
Live
Show companion
QR-accessible from every seat. Tonight's running order, bio, quiz entry.
Everything, in order
Event schema — JSON-LD live on schedule
Every show indexed with structured data. Google can read the schedule.
Live
Three-camera broadcast system + 1Gbps connection
Professional capture infrastructure. Available as an add-on to any hire.
Live
Show companion — /tonight
Mobile-first page per show night. Running order, artist bio, quiz entry. QR from any seat.
Live
Quiz system v4 — board, leader spotlight, reset
Audience on phones, leaderboard on screen. Part of the show, not a distraction from it.
In progress
Membership model — priority access, annual
Named membership with pre-sale access and quarterly members-only events.
In progress
Website rebuild — circleandstar.com
Full Webflow build. Event-led, mobile-first, strand-aware.
In progress
Full-colour wash lighting rig
New rig, full spectrum. Standard in every hire once installed.
Hardware incoming
100″ screen — immersive visual production
Full-width. Ceiling-mounted. Available to Presents and hire productions.
Hardware incoming
Google Indexing API + Time Out / Visit London listings
Non-branded discovery for every show. Before Edinburgh.
Before June
Salon capture & release — R5 + 3-camera protocol
Every Presents night becomes a post-produced content asset. Released on delay. Permanent archive.
Q2 2026
Charitable status — Charity Commission
Filed. Awaiting registration number.
Awaiting number

Every item here is a deliberate choice. Not a feature list. Not a roadmap slide. Circle & Star is built by a small team with a long view — and we're interested in working with artists and producers who think the same way. If you want to talk about what any of this means for a show you're developing, the door is open.

Get in touch