Show stopping for all the wrong reasons. Pleased that this West End performance of Greece is escorting four rude and abusive audience members out. While videos like these frequently go viral, theater workers have told Skye News they're regularly dealing with far worse.

While many of the front-of-house workers we spoke to were too afraid to say anything on camera, what they told us off-camera was disturbing. Accounts of drunks in theater go as urinating wherever they like, projectile vomiting during the shows, finding used condons in the stalls, physical fights breaking out between the seats, and staff not only being verbally abused, but physically assaulted.

I'm concerned that top management at some venues are putting profit over safety, and at the same time, fearful speaking out could cost him his job. This theater worker agreed to talk to us anonymously about being assaulted by a man who'd arrived late.

He basically slammed me against the wall and then walked in. I've had bar staff being shouted at. We've had fights, injured patrons who've needed the assistance of ambulances. It's quite common. I've had a friend who was barely five foot two who was punched in the face by a man who was six foot nine.

We were also shown one theater group's internal incident reports. That person telling Skye News, we have to ask people to leave probably at least once a week. Composer Stephen Schwartz has worked in theater for over five decades on hits from God's Spell to Wicked.

What's exasperating is the cell phones and people being on their cell phones, and you want to say to them, Just then go out in the lobby and text on your phone and let everybody else watch the show.

Of 15,000 workers who responded to a survey by Theater Union Beck-2, 90 % said they regularly witnessed bad behavior.

Undoubtably, theaters had a torrid time during COVID. They were the first to close and the last to open. So it's inevitable that they want to try and claw back some of that lost revenue by selling more alcohol before performances. But I think that is a contributing factor to the problems.

None of the theater owners Skye News approached wanted to comment. While the show must go on away from the stage, it's theater workers who are having to deal with audiences acting up. Katie Spencer, Skye News.