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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
The oldest theatre left on Shaftesbury Avenue, built on the profits of one operetta.
West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building
Henry Leslie produced the light opera Dorothy, it ran and ran, and he put the money into a house of his own. C. J. Phipps designed it and it opened on 17 December 1888, the second theatre to go up on the newly cut Shaftesbury Avenue and the only one of the early ones still standing - the first, the Shaftesbury, was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War.
The front is red brick and Portland stone in a Renaissance manner. Phipps put 1,306 seats behind it, which is now 915 across four levels. Built for operetta, it has taken drama, comedy and musicals since, and Nimax runs it. Historically protected at grade II.
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