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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
Giles Gilbert Scott outside, an Italian Renaissance room inside, and it opened with Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Olivier on the same stage.
West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building
Three architects worked on it - Giles Gilbert Scott, who did Battersea Power Station and the red telephone box, with Bertie Crewe and Cecil Massey - and Theodore Komisarjevsky designed the interior as an Italian Renaissance room, with Vladimir Polunin painting copies of Renaissance pictures into the decoration. It went up in 1930 on the site of a factory and then a music hall called the Alcazar.
It opened on 24 September 1930 with the first performance of Private Lives, played by Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier. A thousand and twelve seats on three levels, historically protected.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.