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The Palace Theatre, in the City of Westminster, London, built in 1891
The London Palladium in Soho opened in 1910. While the Theatre has a resident show, it also has one off performances such as concerts. Since 1930 it has hosted the Royal Variety Performance 43 times.

West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.[1] Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London.[1]

There are a total of 39 theatres in the West End, with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opened in May 1663, the oldest theatre in London.[2] The Savoy Theatre – built as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan – was entirely lit by electricity in 1881.[3]

The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) announced that 2018 was a record year for the capital's theatre industry with attendances topping 15.5 million for the first time since the organization began collecting audience data in 1986. Box office revenues exceeded £765 million.[4] While attendance in 2019 was down 1.4% compared to the previous year, box office revenues reached a record £799 million.[5] Famous screen actors, British and international alike, frequently appear on the London stage.[6]

The majority of West End theatres are owned by the Ambassador Theatre Group, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres, Nimax Theatres, LW Theatres, and the Nederlander Organization.

History[edit]

Further information: English Renaissance theatre

Theatre in London flourished after the English Reformation. The first permanent public playhouse, known as The Theatre, was constructed in 1576 in Shoreditch by James Burbage. It was soon joined by The Curtain. Both are known to have been used by William Shakespeare's company. In 1599, the timber from The Theatre was moved to Southwark, where it was used in building the Globe Theatre in a new theatre district formed beyond the controls of the City corporation. Regarding theatre as sinful, these theatres were closed in 1642 due to the Puritans who would later influence the interregnum of 1649.[7][8]

Further information: Restoration comedy and Restoration spectacular
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Opened in May 1663, it is the oldest theatre in London.[2]

After the Restoration (1660), theatre among other arts exploded, and two companies were licensed to perform, the Duke's Company and the King's Company. Performances were held in converted buildings, such as Lisle's Tennis Court. The first West End theatre, known as Theatre Royal in Bridges Street, was designed by Thomas Killigrew and built on the site of the present Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[2] It opened on 7 May 1663 and was destroyed by a fire nine years later. It was replaced by a new structure designed by Christopher Wren and renamed the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[9][10]

Outside the West End, Sadler's Wells Theatre opened in Islington on 3 June 1683. Taking its name from founder Richard Sadler and monastic springs that were discovered on the property,[11][12] it operated as a "Musick House", with performances of opera; as it was not licensed for plays. In the West End, the Theatre Royal Haymarket opened on 29 December 1720 on a site slightly north of its current location, and the Royal Opera House opened in Covent Garden on 7 December 1732.[13]

The Patent theatre companies retained their duopoly on drama well into the 19th century, and all other theatres could perform only musical entertainments. By the early 19th century, however, music hall entertainments became popular, and presenters found a loophole in the restrictions on non-patent theatres in the genre of melodrama. Melodrama did not break the Patent Acts, as it was accompanied by music. Initially, these entertainments were presented in large halls, attached to public houses, but purpose-built theatres began to appear in the East End at Shoreditch and Whitechapel.

Original interior of Savoy Theatre in 1881, the year it became the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity.[14]

The West End theatre district became established with the opening of many small theatres and halls, including the Adelphi in The Strand on 17 November 1806. South of the River Thames, the Old Vic, Waterloo Road, opened on 11 May 1818. The expansion of the West End theatre district gained pace with the Theatres Act 1843, which relaxed the conditions for the performance of plays, and The Strand gained another venue when the Vaudeville opened on 16 April 1870. The next few decades saw the opening of many new theatres in the West End. The Criterion Theatre opened on Piccadilly Circus on 21 March 1874, and in 1881, two more houses appeared: the Savoy Theatre in The Strand, built by Richard D'Oyly Carte specifically to showcase the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, opened on 10 October (the first theatre to be lit by cooler, cleaner electric lights), and five days later the Comedy Theatre opened as the Royal Comedy Theatre on Panton Street in Leicester Square. It abbreviated its name three years later.[10] On 23 December 1886, Alice in Wonderland (the first major production of the Alice books) debuted at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Lewis Carroll attended a performance seven days later.[15] Opened in 1892, the Duke of York's Theatre saw the debut of J. M. Barrie’s play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, on 27 December 1904.[16]

One of the most popular playwrights in London in the 1890s, Oscar Wilde premiered his second comedy, A Woman of No Importance, at Haymarket Theatre in April 1893. Opened in 1903, the New Theatre was renamed the Noël Coward Theatre in 2006 in honour of the playwright Noël Coward. Constructed in 1897, Her Majesty's Theatre hosted a number of premieres, including George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in 1914.[17] The theatre building boom continued until about the First World War.

In 1930, Laurence Olivier had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's Private Lives. A number of other actors made their West End debut prior to the Second World War, including John Gielgud, Alec Guinness and Vivien Leigh. During the 1950s and 1960s, many plays were produced in theatre clubs, to evade the censorship then exercised by the Lord Chamberlain's Office. The Theatres Act 1968 finally abolished censorship of the stage in the United Kingdom.

Theatreland[edit]

The Lyceum Theatre, home to Disney's The Lion King.[18]

"Theatreland", London's main theatre district, contains approximately forty venues and is located in and near the heart of the West End of London. It is traditionally defined by the Strand to the south, Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the west, and Kingsway to the east, but a few other nearby theatres are also considered "West End" despite being outside the area proper (e.g. The Apollo Victoria Theatre, in Westminster). Prominent theatre streets include Drury Lane, Shaftesbury Avenue and the Strand. The works staged are predominantly musicals, classic and modern straight plays, and comedy performances.[19]

Many theatres in the West End are of late Victorian or Edwardian construction and are privately owned. Many are architecturally impressive, and the largest and best maintained feature grand neo-classical, Romanesque, or Victorian façades and luxurious, detailed interior design and decoration.

Queen's Theatre showing Les Misérables, running in London since October 1985

However, owing to the age of the buildings, leg room is often cramped, and audience facilities such as bars and toilets are often much smaller than in modern theatres. The protected status of the buildings and their confined urban locations, combined with financial constraints, make it very difficult to make substantial improvements to the level of comfort offered. In 2003, the Theatres Trust estimated that an investment of £250 million over the following 15 years was required for modernisation,[20] and stated that 60% of theatres had seats from which the stage was not fully visible.[21] The theatre owners unsuccessfully requested tax concessions to help them meet the costs.

The restored facade of the Dominion Theatre, as seen in 2017

From 2004 onwards there were several incidents of falling plasterwork, or performances being cancelled because of urgent building repairs being required. These events culminated in the partial collapse of the ceiling of the Apollo Theatre in December 2013.[22] Of these earlier incidents, only one led to people being hurt,[23] but at the Apollo Theatre 76 people needed medical treatment for their injuries.[24] The refurbishment of the Dominion Theatre was completed in 2017 with the unveiling of a new double-sided LED screen, the largest and highest resolution projecting screen on the exterior of a West End theatre.[25]

In 2012, gross sales of £529,787,692 were up 0.27% and attendances also increased 0.56% to 13,992,773-year-on-year[26] In 2013, sales again rose this time by 11% to £585,506,455,[27] with attendances rising to 14,587,276.[28] This was despite slightly fewer performances occurring in 2013.[29]

On 16 March 2020, following government advice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all theatres in the West End were closed until further notice.[30]

Long-running shows[edit]

Main article: List of the longest-running West End shows
The St Martin's Theatre, home to The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play.

The length of West End shows depend on ticket sales. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh, the longest-running musical in West End history is Les Misérables, which has been running in London since October 1985. It overtook Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which closed in 2002 after running for 8,949 performances and 21 years, as the longest-running West End musical of all time on 9 October 2006. Other long-runners include Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and Willy Russell's Blood Brothers which have also subsequently overtaken Cats. However the non-musical Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap is the longest-running production in the world, and has been performed continuously since 1952.[31]

List of West End theatres[edit]

  • If no show is currently running, the play listed is the next show planned (dates marked with an *).
  • If the next show planned is not announced, the applicable columns are left blank (however due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many theatres have numerous postponed upcoming shows which the opening dates will be confirmed. See Upcoming productions below for more detail)
TheatreAddressCapacityOwner/OperatorCurrent productionClassificationOpening
date		Closing
date
Adelphi TheatreStrand1436LW Theatres / Nederlander OrganizationBack to the Future the Musical[32]Musical2021-08-2020 August 2021*Open-ended
Aldwych TheatreAldwych1176Nederlander OrganizationTina—The Tina Turner MusicalMusical2018-04-1717 April 2018Open-ended
Ambassadors TheatreWest Street444Ambassador Theatre Group
Apollo TheatreShaftesbury Avenue775Nimax TheatresEverybody's Talking About JamieMusical2017-11-2222 November 2017Open-ended
Apollo Victoria TheatreWilton Road2384Ambassador Theatre GroupWickedMusical2006-09-2727 September 2006Open-ended
Arts TheatreGreat Newport Street350JJ Goodman Ltd.OleannaPlay2021-07-2828 July 2021*2021-10-2323 October 2021
Cambridge TheatreEarlham Street1283LW TheatresMatilda the MusicalMusical2011-11-2424 November 2011Open-ended
Criterion TheatreJermyn Street593Criterion Theatre TrustAmélieMusical2011-11-2420 May 2021*Open-ended
Dominion TheatreTottenham Court Road2069Nederlander OrganizationThe Prince of EgyptMusical2020-02-2525 February 2020Open-ended
Duchess TheatreCatherine Street494Nimax TheatresCruisePlay2021-05-2020 May 2021*2021-06-1313 June 2021
Duke of York's TheatreSt. Martin's Lane650Ambassador Theatre GroupThe Ocean at the End of the LanePlay2021-11-044 November 2021*2022-02-1212 February 2022
Fortune TheatreRussell Street432Ambassador Theatre GroupThe Woman in BlackPlay1989-06-077 June 1989Open-ended
Garrick TheatreCharing Cross Road718Nimax TheatresDeath Drop[33]Play2020-12-1010 December 20202021-07-1111 July 2021
Gielgud TheatreShaftesbury Avenue986Delfont Mackintosh TheatresTo Kill a Mockingbird[34]Play2022-03-1010 March 2022*Open-ended
Gillian Lynne TheatreDrury Lane1108LW TheatresCinderella[35]Musical2021-07-1414 July 2021*Open-ended
Harold Pinter TheatrePanton Street796Ambassador Theatre GroupWalden[36]Play2021-05-2727 May 2021*2021-06-1212 June 2021
Her Majesty's TheatreHaymarket1160LW TheatresThe Phantom of the OperaMusical1986-10-099 October 1986Open-ended
London PalladiumArgyll Street2286LW TheatresJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatMusical2021-07-1515 July 2021*2021-09-055 September 2021
Lyceum TheatreWellington Street2100Ambassador Theatre GroupThe Lion KingMusical1999-10-1919 October 1999Open-ended
Lyric TheatreShaftesbury Avenue967Nimax TheatresSixMusical2020-12-055 December 20202021-08-2222 August 2021
Noël Coward TheatreSt. Martin's Lane872Delfont Mackintosh TheatresThe ComebackPlay2021-07-077 July 2021*2021-07-2525 July 2021
Novello TheatreAldwych1143Delfont Mackintosh TheatresMamma Mia!Musical1999-04-066 April 1999Open-ended
Palace TheatreShaftesbury Avenue1400Nimax TheatresHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildPlay2016-07-2525 July 2016Open-ended
Phoenix TheatreCharing Cross Road1012Ambassador Theatre GroupCome from AwayMusical2019-02-1818 February 2019Open-ended
Piccadilly TheatreDenman Street1200Ambassador Theatre GroupMoulin Rouge!MusicalQ3 2021Open-ended
Playhouse TheatreCraven Street786Ambassador Theatre Group
Prince Edward TheatreOld Compton Street1650Delfont Mackintosh TheatresMary PoppinsMusical2019-11-1313 November 2019Open-ended
Prince of Wales TheatreCoventry Street1160Delfont Mackintosh TheatresThe Book of MormonMusical2013-03-2121 March 2013Open-ended
Savoy TheatreStrand1158Ambassador Theatre GroupPretty Woman: The MusicalMusical2021-07-088 July 2021*Open-ended
Shaftesbury TheatreShaftesbury Avenue1400The Theatre of Comedy Company& JulietMusical2019-11-2020 November 2019Open-ended
Sondheim TheatreShaftesbury Avenue1074Delfont Mackintosh TheatresLes MisérablesMusical2020-01-1616 January 2020Open-ended
St Martin's TheatreWest Street550Stephen Waley-CohenThe MousetrapPlay1952-11-2525 November 1952Open-ended
Theatre Royal, Drury LaneCatherine Street2196LW TheatresFrozen[37]Musical2021-09-088 September 2021*Open-ended
Theatre Royal HaymarketHaymarket888First Access EntertainmentLove Letters[38]Play2021-05-1919 May 2021*2021-06-1313 June 2021
Trafalgar TheatreWhitehall400Trafalgar Entertainment GroupJersey Boys[39]Musical2021-07-2828 July 2021*Open-ended
Vaudeville TheatreStrand690Nimax TheatresConstellations[40]Play2021-06-1818 June 2021*2021-09-1212 September 2021
Victoria Palace TheatreVictoria Street1517Delfont Mackintosh TheatresHamiltonMusical2017-12-2121 December 2017Open-ended
Wyndham's TheatreSt. Martin's Court750Delfont Mackintosh TheatresLeopoldstadtPlay2020-02-1212 February 20202021-09-0430 October 2021

Upcoming productions[edit]

The following have been announced as future West End productions. The theatre in which they will run is either not yet known or currently occupied by another show.

ProductionTheatreOpeningClassificationRef
Anna XHarold Pinter Theatre2021-07-1515 July 2021Play[41]
Billionaire BoyGarrick Theatre17 July 2021Musical[42]
Dear Evan HansenNoël Coward TheatreTBAMusical
The Drifters GirlGarrick Theatre2021-11-2525 November 2021Musical[43]
Get Up, Stand Up!Lyric Theatre2021-10-2020 October 2021Musical[44]
Heathers: The MusicalTheatre Royal Haymarket2021-06-2121 June 2021Musical[45]
J'OuvertHarold Pinter Theatre2021-06-2121 June 2021Play[46]
Magic Goes WrongVaudeville Theatre21 October 2021Comedy[47]
Only Fools and HorsesTheatre Royal Haymarket2021-10-011 October 2021Musical[48]
The Last Five YearsVaudeville Theatre17 September 2021Musical[49]
The Play That Goes WrongDuchess Theatre18 June 2021Play[50]

London's non-commercial theatres[edit]

The exterior of the Old Vic

The term "West End theatre" is generally used to refer specifically to commercial productions in Theatreland. However, the leading non-commercial theatres in London enjoy great artistic prestige. These include the Royal National Theatre, the Barbican Centre, Shakespeare's Globe (including the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), the Old Vic, Royal Court Theatre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, and the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. These theatres stage a high proportion of straight drama, Shakespeare, other classic plays and premieres of new plays by leading playwrights. Successful productions from the non-commercial theatres sometimes transfer to one of the commercial West End houses for an extended run.

The Royal Opera House is widely regarded as one of the greatest opera houses in the world, comparable with the Palais Garnier, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera House. Commonly known simply as Covent Garden due to its location, it is home to the Royal Opera, Royal Ballet and a resident symphony orchestra, and hosts guest performances from other leading opera, ballet and performance companies from around the world.

Likewise, the London Coliseum is the resident home to the English National Opera. The theatre is also the London base for performances by the English National Ballet, who perform regular seasons throughout the year when not on tour.

The Peacock Theatre is located on the edge of the Theatreland area. Now owned by the London School of Economics and Political Science, it is used in the evenings for dance performances by Sadler's Wells, who manage the theatre on behalf of the school.

Other London theatres[edit]

There are a great number of theatre productions in London outside the West End. Much of this is known as fringe theatre which is the equivalent of Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theatre in New York. Among these are the Bush Theatre and the Donmar Warehouse. Fringe venues range from well-equipped small theatres to rooms above pubs, and the performances range from classic plays, to cabaret, to plays in the languages of London's ethnic minorities. The performers range from emerging young professionals to amateurs.

There are many theatres located throughout Greater London, such as the Lyric Hammersmith, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Rose Theatre, Kingston, New Wimbledon Theatre, the Rudolf Steiner Theatre in Westminster, the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon, Secombe Theatre in Sutton and the Churchill Theatre in Bromley.

Awards[edit]

There are a number of annual awards for outstanding achievements in London theatre:

  • Laurence Olivier Awards
  • Evening Standard Theatre Awards
  • WhatsOnStage Awards
  • Critics' Circle Theatre Awards
  • National Dance Awards
  • West End Cares Awards
  • West End Frame Awards

See also[edit]

  • Culture of London
  • List of London venues
  • Great West End Theatres
  • List of former theatres in London

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Christopher Innes, "West End" in The Cambridge Guide to Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1194–1195, ISBN 0-521-43437-8
  2. ^ a b c "London's 10 oldest theatres". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Shakespeare's indoor Globe to glow by candlelight". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  4. ^ "2018 BOX OFFICE FIGURES RELEASED BY SOCIETY OF LONDON THEATRE AND UK THEATRE". Society of London Theatre. March 2019.
  5. ^ "New Figures Reveal West End Theatre is Thriving". London Box Office. February 2020.
  6. ^ "Stars on stage". London theatre. Retrieved 23 June 2015
  7. ^ Jane Milling; Peter Thomson (23 November 2004). The Cambridge History of British Theatre. Cambridge University Press. p. 439. ISBN 978-0-521-65040-3.
  8. ^ "From pandemics to puritans: when theatre shut down through history and how it recovered". The Stage.co.uk. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  9. ^ "London's Vibrant West End Theatre SCENE". TheatreHistory.com. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
  10. ^ a b "London pub trivia – Ten oldest London theatres". Timeout London. 12 December 2006. Archived from the original on 3 December 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
  11. ^ "London's Lost Tea-Gardens: I". Story of London. Archived from the original on 27 August 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
  12. ^ "Sadler's Wells Theatre". LondonTown.com. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
  13. ^ "Royal Opera House". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  14. ^ "The Savoy Theatre", The Times, 3 October 1881
  15. ^ Carroll, Lewis (1979). The Letters of Lewis Carroll, Volumes 1–2. Oxford University Press. p. 657. Dec. 30th.—To London with M—, and took her to “Alice in Wonderland,” Mr. Savile Clarke's play at the Prince of Wales's Theatre... as a whole, the play seems a success.
  16. ^ "Mr Barrie's New Play. A Christmas Fairy Tale". The Glasgow Herald. 28 December 1904. p. 7. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  17. ^ Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Archived 2 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine PeoplePlayUK, accessed 12 February 2008.
  18. ^ "1.8 million views of Lion King". Theatre Views Newsletter. October 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  19. ^ Michael Billington "Snooty about musicals? Sheila Hancock should change her tune", The Guardian. (blog), 16 March 2001
  20. ^ Giles Worsley "Falling Houses", The Daily Telegraph, 6 December 2003
  21. ^ Michael Billington "Crisis in the West End", The Guardian, 2 August 2007
  22. ^ Sarah Jane Griffiths "How safe is London's Theatreland?", BBC News, 20 December 2013
  23. ^ At the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2004, 15 people were injured when part of the ceiling fell on to them; see the Sarah Jane Griffiths article above.
  24. ^ Alice Philipson, and Andrew Marszal "Apollo Theatre ceiling in London's West End collapses: scores injured", The Daily Telegraph, 20 December
  25. ^ "The Dominion Theatre, home to An American in Paris, completes £6M refurbishment". mr.carlwoodward.com. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  26. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  27. ^ Singh, Anita (29 January 2014). "West End audiences hit record high thanks to Twitter". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  28. ^ "West End Theatre Ticket Sales at Record High". Sky (United Kingdom). 29 January 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  29. ^ "West End Has Another Record Year, With Increases in Both Attendance and Revenue". Playbill. 29 January 2014. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  30. ^ "Theatre closures to help slow the spread of Coronavirus". UK Theatre. 16 March 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  31. ^ "Agatha Christie's: The Mousetrap". St. Martin's Theatre. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2019. Here you will find all the information you need about the longest running show, of any kind, in the world.
  32. ^ "Back to the Future The Musical to open in the West End in May 2021". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 8 September 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  33. ^ "'Death Drop' murder mystery reopens at Garrick Theatre from May". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  34. ^ "Bartlett Sher's To Kill A Mockingbird to transfer to West End in summer 2020". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 31 October 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  35. ^ Wiegand, Chris (10 January 2020). "Killing Eve's Emerald Fennell and Andrew Lloyd Webber create new Cinderella". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  36. ^ "Gemma Arterton to star in 'Walden' at Harold Pinter Theatre". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  37. ^ "Disney's Frozen musical to reopen Theatre Royal Drury Lane". LW Theatres. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  38. ^ "Love Letters, Starring Martin Shaw & Jenny Seagrove, Sets Dates for West End Return". Broadway.com. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  39. ^ "'Jersey Boys' to return to the West End in 2021". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 30 October 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  40. ^ "Peter Capaldi and Sheila Atim among rotating cast in Constellations revival". The Guardian. 9 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  41. ^ "Emma Corrin to star in 'Anna X' at Harold Pinter Theatre". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  42. ^ "BILLIONAIRE BOY". Nimax Theatres. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  43. ^ "Beverley Knight to star in new musical The Drifters Girl in the West End". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  44. ^ "Bob Marley musical Get Up, Stand Up! to premiere in West End in 2021". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  45. ^ Meyer, Dan (8 April 2021). "Heathers the Musical Will Return to London and Launch U.K. Tour". Playbill. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  46. ^ "'J'Ouvert' to open at Harold Pinter Theatre". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 15 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  47. ^ "Magic Goes Wrong | Book Tickets Direct | Vaudeville Theatre". Nimax Theatres. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  48. ^ "Only Fools and Horses - The Musical - Official Website No Booking Fees". Theatre Royal Haymarket. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  49. ^ "The Last Five Years revival to transfer to the West End | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  50. ^ "The Play That Goes Wrong | Book Official Tickets | Duchess Theatre". Nimax Theatres. Retrieved 9 April 2021.

External links[edit]

  • Society of London Theatre – trade body for the London theatre industry
  • London's West End Theatres Information and archive material on London's historic West End Theatres.

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