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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
Built of breeze blocks to last five years, and still here fifty on.
PlayhousesWorth it for the building
Frank Dunlop put it up in 1970 on a bomb site and a butcher's shop, cheaply and deliberately so, for an audience the West End was not reaching. It was meant to stand for five years. It started as a National Theatre outpost and went independent in 1974, and Haworth Tompkins rebuilt it in 2006 without tidying away what it had been, which won the RIBA London building of the year.
420 seats in the main house and two studios of 150 and 70, close enough that the room is part of the production. Actors who could fill anything take work here, and the prices stay low on purpose.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.