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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
The country's largest cinema when it opened in 1933, in art deco, off the Commercial Road.
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The Hyams brothers bought up most of a Limehouse block occupied by the Commercial Brewery and built what was then the biggest cinema in Britain. It opened on 11 September 1933 and the ribbon was cut by Bridget Hughes, aged fourteen, who had been born in one of the houses knocked down to make room for it.
It stopped showing films in November 1960, was bought by the Royal Opera House as a rehearsal and training space, spent the 1980s as a bingo hall, and became a live venue in 2006. The interior — the sweep of the balcony, the fluted plaster, the light fittings — survived all of it.
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