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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Fortune Theatre

Four hundred and thirty-two seats opposite Drury Lane, where The Woman in Black frightened people for thirty-three years.

West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building

Ernest Schaufelberg built it in 1924, six years before he did the Adelphi, in an Italianate style and on a very tight site; it holds 432 on three levels and is historically protected. It was the first theatre built in London after the First World War.

The Woman in Black opened here in 1989 and played until March 2023 - thirty-three years. The room's smallness was the point of it: a ghost story works better when the audience can hear each other.

Where
Russell Street, WC2B 5HH
Nearest station
Covent Garden · 3 min walk

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