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London's stages, concert rooms and cinemas: 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 repertory and arthouse cinemas, 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
An Edwardian barrel-vaulted ceiling over fourteen Art Deco panels, with films shown under it since 1912.
CinemasWorth it for the building
Permission was granted in 1910 for a Premier Electric Theatre, but the company failed before it opened and the place started life instead as the East Finchley Picturedrome on 11 May 1912, with four hundred and twenty-eight seats and a three-day run of a film about the Titanic, which had gone down a month earlier. It became the Coliseum in 1926 and the Rex in 1936, and in 1938 Howes and Jackman turned the auditorium around - the screen moved to the far end, the floor was re-raked, and Mollo and Egan lined the side walls with fourteen Art Deco panels while leaving the 1910 barrel-vaulted ceiling where it was. Both are still above and beside you.
Demolition for an office block was proposed in 1983 and defeated by a local campaign, and in 1985 the building passed to a trust. It is a registered charity, it calls itself London's longest-running independent cinema, and its membership tiers are named Picturedrome, Coliseum, Rex and Neon after the building's own past. The programme is new releases and independent film with parent-and-baby and accessible screenings, and gallery exhibitions filmed for the screen.
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