My friend and former colleague Roger Foss, who has died of a stroke aged 80, had a lifelong interest in acting and the theatre.
He started out as an actor himself in the 1960s, on stage and in television, but when the work petered out in the 1970s, Roger decided to retrain and to become a journalist. He enrolled at the University of Essex and graduated with a master’s in literature and drama in 1987. I first got to know him when, in the 1990s, he began writing freelance theatre reviews for the listings magazine What’s on in London, of which I was editor – in 2000 he joined the staff as associate editor, later becoming managing editor.
