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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
Charing Cross station's roof fell through it in 1905, and the Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour were recorded in it for twenty-five years.
West EndPlayhousesWorth it for the building
F. H. Fowler and Hill opened it in March 1882. In December 1905, while it was being enlarged, part of the roof of Charing Cross station next door came down across the tracks and took the station's western wall through the theatre's roof and wall with it; three people died in the station and three workmen on the theatre site. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1907.
The BBC had it from 1951 to about 1976 and recorded the Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour in it, along with live music sessions. It is historically protected and seats about 550 in its current configuration.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.