Performance venues

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, the rooms above pubs where things start, and the booth on Leicester Square that sells off what the West End has not. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.

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Ambassadors Theatre

One of the smallest theatres in the West End, and where The Mousetrap spent its first twenty-two years before moving next door.

West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building

Sprague built it in 1913 as the first of the pair he made on West Street, St Martin's following three years later. It seats just over four hundred, which makes it one of the smallest houses in the West End, and it is historically protected.

The Mousetrap opened here on 25 November 1952 and stayed until March 1974, when it moved across the alley to St Martin's without missing a performance. Plays, and the kind that suit a room where the back row is close.

Where
West Street, WC2H 9ND
Nearest station
Leicester Square · 2 min walk

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