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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 1969 theatre built inside the shell of an 1855 music hall, with 421 seats wrapped round a thrust stage.
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It began in 1855 as rooms attached to the Rose and Crown pub, which is how most music halls began, and spent the rest of the century changing its name every twenty years - Crowder's, the Royal Borough Theatre of Varieties, the Parthenon - before becoming a cinema in 1924 and staying one for nearly forty years.
Greenwich Council bought the site in 1962 intending to knock it down, and got enough local argument that it built a theatre instead. Brian Meeking designed the present house inside the old walls and it opened in 1969: 421 seats on a steep rake, wrapped round a thrust stage that puts the front row level with the actors' feet.
It takes in touring work rather than making its own, so the programme turns over weekly - classic revivals, new companies, dance, and a pantomime at Christmas. Crooms Hill is a five-minute walk from the Cutty Sark.
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