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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, 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
Where Doctor Who and Hancock were made, now a theatre with a cinema running beside it.
Playhouses
Also in Cinemas.
The building was converted into a film studio with two sound stages in 1933, and The Seventh Veil, The Happiest Days of Your Life and Father Brown were shot in it. The BBC took it over in 1954 and made Hancock's Half Hour, Quatermass and the Pit and six years of Doctor Who here. When they left in 1974 it became an arts centre, opening in 1976 with a community festival and then putting on Helen Mirren's Measure for Measure and Brian Cox's The Changeling within three years. Yoko Ono, David Hockney, Samuel Beckett, Michael Clark, Leigh Bowery and Benjamin Zephaniah all worked here. The old studios closed in 2014 and the present building opened on the same site in 2019.
The cinema is a real programme rather than an occasional screening: seasons of its own, the London Spanish Film Festival and the London Breeze Film Festival, parent-and-baby and Kids' Club showings, a Silver Screen strand, and theatre relayed to the screen. Theatre, dance, comedy and music run alongside it.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.