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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
Nash's portico of 1821, put where it is to close the view down Charles Street.
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There has been a theatre on the Haymarket since 1720, when it opened as the Little Theatre in the Hay. John Nash rebuilt it slightly to the south and opened the present house on 4 July 1821, with six Corinthian columns under a pediment, sited deliberately: the portico closes the vista down Charles Street. It is the one theatre front in London that finishes a street rather than simply standing in one.
888 seats over four levels, protected at the highest historic grade. It also invented the afternoon - the first scheduled matinee anywhere was played here in 1873, and the habit went everywhere from 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.