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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
A Frank Matcham auditorium taken down piece by piece and rebuilt inside a 1970s block.
PlayhousesWorth it for the building
It opened as a music hall in 1888 and Frank Matcham rebuilt it in 1895, grandly, as the New Lyric Opera House. In 1966 it was condemned. The campaign that saved it did something odd and wonderful instead: the Victorian auditorium was dismantled, moved and reassembled inside a modern shell on King Street, where it reopened in 1979.
So the plasterwork is Matcham's and the building around it is not. 565 seats in the old room and 120 in the studio, and it makes its own work rather than taking other people's.
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