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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Novello Theatre

Ivor Novello lived in the flat above it for thirty-eight years, and it took his name half a century after he died.

West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building

Sprague opened it in May 1905 as one of a matching pair framing the Waldorf Hotel, the Aldwych Theatre being the other. Novello took the flat on the top floor in 1913 and stayed until his death in 1951, writing most of his musicals there and walking downstairs to work; the theatre was renamed for him in 2005.

About 1,100 seats, historically protected. Mamma Mia! moved in during September 2012 and is still running.

Where
5 Aldwych, WC2B 4LD
Nearest station
Covent Garden · 4 min walk

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