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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 Ovalhouse company in a building of its own at last, under the Nuclear Dawn mural.
Playhouses
The company goes back to clubs set up in the 1930s to give young people in south London somewhere to go, which turned to theatre in the 1960s and became Oval House - a fringe theatre in Kennington that mattered a great deal to Black British theatre and to a lot of companies who had nowhere else to start. It closed in 2020 and opened here in 2022, nine years after the move was first announced.
Edmund Wilson of Foster Wilson Architects designed it, and it has two rooms, seating 180 and 120. It stands next to Nuclear Dawn, the 1981 Brixton mural of a skeleton in a Union Jack striding over the Thames, which is a fair indication of the programme: new work, mostly by writers from the area, and not much of it comfortable.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.