A report on West End theatre

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.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Opened in May 1663, it is the oldest theatre in London.
Original interior of Savoy Theatre in 1881, the year it became the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity.
The Lyceum Theatre, home to Disney's The Lion King.
Queen's Theatre showing Les Misérables, running in London since October 1985
The restored facade of the Dominion Theatre, as seen in 2017
The St Martin's Theatre, home to The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play.
The exterior of the Old Vic
The Royal Court Theatre. Upstairs is used as an experimental space for new projects—The Rocky Horror Show premiered here in 1973.
West End theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue in 2016
Gilbert and Sullivan play at the Savoy in 1881
Victoria Palace Theatre (showing Billy Elliot in 2012) was refurbished in 2017.

Mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.

- West End theatre
The Palace Theatre, in the City of Westminster, London, built in 1891

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Hopkins at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival

Anthony Hopkins

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Welsh actor, director, and producer.

Welsh actor, director, and producer.

Hopkins at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Richard Attenborough directed Hopkins in five films, and in the 1970s described him as "unquestionably the greatest actor of his generation".
Isabella Rossellini and Hopkins in Berlin to shoot scenes for The Innocent (1993)
Lecter t-shirt worn by Hopkins in Hannibal on display at the London Film Museum
Hopkins at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival
Anthony Hopkins Centre at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff
Hopkins at the 2009 Tuscan Sun Festival
Panorama of Snowdonia in north Wales which Hopkins described as "one of the most beautiful places in the world and Snowdon is the jewel that lies at its heart. It must be cherished and protected."

His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989.

Apollo Victoria Theatre in 2006, home to the musical Wicked

Apollo Victoria Theatre

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Apollo Victoria Theatre in 2006, home to the musical Wicked

The Apollo Victoria Theatre is a West End theatre on Wilton Road in the Westminster district of London, across from London Victoria Station.

2011 West End illustration

Matilda the Musical

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Musical based on the 1988 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.

Musical based on the 1988 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl.

2011 West End illustration
Since 2011, Matilda the Musical is playing in the Cambridge Theatre in West End, London
Matilda the Musical marquee at the Shubert Theatre

After a twelve-week trial run staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at Stratford-upon-Avon from November 2010 to January 2011, it received its West End premiere on 24 November 2011 at the Cambridge Theatre and its Broadway premiere on 11 April 2013 at the Shubert Theatre.

Dominion Theatre (2017) with An American in Paris on its new double-sided LED screen

Dominion Theatre

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Dominion Theatre (2017) with An American in Paris on its new double-sided LED screen
The restored facade, as seen in 2017, illuminated at night
Statue of Freddie Mercury at the Dominion Theatre where Queen and Ben Elton's musical We Will Rock You was performed from 2002 to 2014
Interior of the theatre with the stage to the right

The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre and former cinema on Tottenham Court Road, close to St Giles Circus and Centre Point, in the London Borough of Camden.

Christie in 1958

Agatha Christie

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British writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

British writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Christie in 1958
Portrait of Christie entitled Lost in Reverie, by Douglas John Connah, 1894
Christie as a girl, early 1900s
Christie as a young woman, 1910s
Archie Christie, Major Belcher (tour leader), Mr. Bates (secretary) and Agatha Christie on the 1922 British Empire Expedition Tour
Daily Herald, 15 December 1926, announcing that Christie had been found—disappearing for 11 days, she was located at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire
Christie's room at the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, where the hotel claims she wrote Murder on the Orient Express
Cresswell Place, Chelsea
Blue plaque, 58 Sheffield Terrace, Holland Park, London
Winterbrook House, Winterbrook, Oxfordshire. Her final home, Christie lived here with her husband from 1934 until her death in 1976.
Christie at Schiphol Airport, 17 September 1964
Christie's gravestone at St. Mary's church, Cholsey, Oxfordshire
Greenway in Devon, Christie's summer home from 1938. The estate was used as a setting for some of her plots, including Dead Man's Folly. The final episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot was also filmed here in 2013.
An early depiction of detective Hercule Poirot, from The American Magazine, March 1933
Abney Hall, Cheshire, the inspiration for Christie novel settings such as Chimneys and Stonygates
Christie used much inspiration from her stay at the Old Cataract Hotel on the banks of the River Nile in Aswan, Egypt for her 1937 novel Death on the Nile
Memorial to Christie in central London
Graphic novel adaptations of Christie's books in various languages
Commemorative blue plaque in the West End marking The Mousetrap as the world's longest-running play

She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952, as well as six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

The London Coliseum, home of English National Opera

English National Opera

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Opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane.

Opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane.

The London Coliseum, home of English National Opera
Detail of the interior of the London Coliseum, 2011
Emma Cons
The old Sadler's Wells, demolished to make way for Baylis's theatre
Lilian Baylis
Covent Garden – rival and potential senior partner
Janáček, championed by Charles Mackerras and the company
Colin Davis, musical director, 1961–65
Charles Mackerras, musical director 1970–77
Messiah, staged in 2009
ENO has presented and premiered several Philip Glass operas

In the years after the First World War, Baylis's Shakespeare productions, which featured some of the leading actors from London's West End, attracted national attention, as her shoe-string opera productions did not.

David Hare (playwright)

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English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director.

English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director.

In the West End, he had his greatest success with the plays Plenty (1978), which he adapted into a 1985 film starring Meryl Streep, Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1997), and Amy's View (1998).

Carroll in June 1857

Lewis Carroll

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English author, poet and mathematician.

English author, poet and mathematician.

Carroll in June 1857
Lewis Carroll self-portrait c. undefined 1856, aged 24 at that time
1863 photograph of Carroll by Oscar G. Rejlander
One of Carroll's own illustrations
"The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo". Illustration by John Tenniel, 1865.
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, including the poem "Jabberwocky".
Photo of Alice Liddell taken by Lewis Carroll (1858)
Reconstructed nyctograph, with scale demonstrated by a 5 euro cent.
A posthumous portrait of Lewis Carroll by Hubert von Herkomer, based on photographs. This painting now hangs in the Great Hall of Christ Church, Oxford.
Lewis Carroll in later life
The grave of Lewis Carroll at the Mount Cemetery in Guildford
Lewis Carroll portrait of Beatrice Hatch
The "cut pages in diary" document, in the Dodgson family archive in Woking
Lewis Carroll memorial window (Mad Hatter and March Hare pictured) at All Saints' Church, Daresbury, Cheshire

Public appearances included attending the West End musical Alice in Wonderland (the first major live production of his Alice books) at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 30 December 1886.

St Martin's Theatre, London in March 2010

The Mousetrap

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Murder mystery play by Agatha Christie.

Murder mystery play by Agatha Christie.

St Martin's Theatre, London in March 2010
Blue plaque on the front wall of St Martin's Theatre, Covent Garden, London
22,461st performance (St Martin's Theatre – November 2006)
The Mousetrap sign outside the theatre, signifying its 59th year in 2011
Stage production of The Mousetrap at Otterbein University in Ohio in 2010

The Mousetrap opened in London's West End in 1952 and ran continuously until 16 March 2020, when the stage performances had to be temporarily discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic.

20th Anniversary London Poster

Blood Brothers (musical)

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Musical with book, lyrics, and music by Willy Russell.

Musical with book, lyrics, and music by Willy Russell.

20th Anniversary London Poster

Originally developed as a school play, Blood Brothers debuted in Liverpool before Russell transferred it to the West End for a short run in 1983.