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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 Victorian scientific institute, derelict for years, now 325 seats that reach the West End.
PlayhousesWorth it for the building
Built in 1837 for the Islington Literary and Scientific Society, with a library, a museum, a laboratory and a lecture theatre for 500. It fell out of use, and the director Pierre Audi bought the derelict building in 1979 and opened it as a theatre in 1980.
325 seats on two levels, and a habit of sending its work onward: the run here is often where a play begins before the West End or Broadway. Ian McDiarmid and Jonathan Kent ran it through the 1990s, then Michael Attenborough, then Rupert Goold; Dominic Cooke has it now.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.