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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
Where London first heard a film talk: The Singing Fool, with Al Jolson, in 1928.
West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building
Bertie Crewe and Edward A. Stone opened it in April 1928 as a theatre, and within months it was showing The Singing Fool - the first talking picture London saw, with Al Jolson in it. It went back to the stage the following year and has stayed there.
It seats 1,232 on three levels, and takes the musicals that need more room than Shaftesbury Avenue has.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.