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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, and the rooms above pubs where things start. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
A vast Victorian pleasure palace on a hill, with the world's first television studios inside it.
GigsWorth it for the building
It opened in 1873 and burned down sixteen days later; the rebuilt palace is the one on the hill now, historically protected and enormous, with the Great Hall taking ten thousand people for a gig. The BBC broadcast the world's first regular high-definition television service from the south-east wing in 1936, and those studios are still in the building.
The restored Victorian theatre, closed for most of a century and left deliberately unfinished when it reopened in 2018, is the other room worth knowing about: peeling, half-ruined and used for concerts and film. Outside there is a park, a boating lake and one of the best views over London there is.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.