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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Apollo Victoria Theatre

An Art Deco cinema built as an underwater palace, with scallop shells on the walls and columns that burst into fountains at the ceiling.

West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building

E. Wamsley Lewis and William Edward Trent built it in 1930 as the New Victoria Cinema and gave it a nautical interior - concealed lighting throughout, scalloped shells, and columns that open out into sculpted fountains where they meet the ceiling. It is protected at the higher grade, which for a cinema interior of that date is unusual, and most people walk past it on the way to the station.

Films stopped in 1975 and it reopened as a theatre. It seats 2,328, and Wicked has been in it since September 2006.

Where
17 Wilton Road, SW1V 1LG
Nearest station
Victoria · 1 min walk

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