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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, and the rooms above pubs where things start. 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
Bram Stoker managed the house here, and watched his employer turn into Dracula.
West EndWorth it for the building
A theatre has stood on this ground since 1765. Samuel Beazley's building, the one there now, opened on 14 July 1834 at a cost of £40,000, holds 2,100 and is historically protected at grade II*.
Henry Irving ran it from 1871 to 1902 and played Hamlet here for two hundred nights in 1874, with Ellen Terry beside him for twenty-four years. His business manager from 1878 to 1898 was Bram Stoker, who is generally held to have taken something of Irving for Count Dracula - and Irving, offered the part on stage, would never play it. The building spent 1951 to 1986 as the Mecca Ballroom, and has had The Lion King in it since 1999.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.