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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, 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.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
The only theatre its architect ever completed, and the one whose ceiling came down in 2013.
West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building
Lewin Sharp opened it in February 1901 and never finished another theatre; this is his whole body of work in the form. It is historically protected and now seats 658, down from 893 on the first night, which is what a century of widening seats does to a Victorian house.
On 19 December 2013, during a performance, about ten square metres of the ornate plaster ceiling fell into the auditorium and eighty-eight people were hurt. The investigation traced it to hessian wadding mixed into the plaster of Paris, probably there since the building went up - a construction method used across the West End at the time, which is why every other house of that age was inspected afterwards.
It takes comedies and plays.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.