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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
A 265-seat house in the railway arches under Charing Cross, and one of the smallest theatres the West End counts.
West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building
The room is inside the brick arches that carry the trains into Charing Cross, off Villiers Street, and has been a theatre since 1936. For fifty-six years of that it was the Players' Theatre, which did Victorian music hall in earnest - a chairman with a gavel, songs the audience was expected to know, and a membership that treated it as a club. That ended in 2002.
Since 2011 it has been the Charing Cross Theatre, and since 2016, under Thom Southerland, a producing house with a clear specialism: musicals too large for a fringe room and too odd for a 1,200-seat one. Rebecca, Allegiance and Marie Curie all had their British runs here.
Two hundred and sixty-five seats makes it the smallest thing the West End counts as one of its own, and the arch above your head is the reason the acoustic is what it is.
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