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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WhatsOnStage Awards

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The WhatsOnStage Awards (WOS Awards), formerly known as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com.

The WhatsOnStage Awards (WOS Awards), formerly known as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com.

The awards recognise performers and productions of British theatre with an emphasis on London's West End theatre.

New Wimbledon Theatre

New Wimbledon Theatre

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Situated on the Broadway, Wimbledon, London, in the London Borough of Merton.

Situated on the Broadway, Wimbledon, London, in the London Borough of Merton.

New Wimbledon Theatre

Lionel Bart's Oliver! received its world premiere at the theatre in 1960 before transferring to the West End's New Theatre.

Rowling in 2010

J. K. Rowling

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British author and philanthropist.

British author and philanthropist.

Rowling in 2010
Rowling's parents met on a train from King's Cross Station; her portal to the magical world is "Platform 9 3/4" at King's Cross.
Church Cottage, Rowling's childhood home
Rowling moved to Porto, Portugal to teach English.
A California bookshop five minutes before Deathly Hallows was released
Bus promoting Deathly Hallows – Part 2, 2011
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre in the West End
Sculpture of Harry Potter in Leicester Square, London, 2020
Rowling after receiving an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen in 2006

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child premiered in the West End in May 2016 and on Broadway in July.

First UK edition

Matilda (novel)

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Book written by British writer Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Book written by British writer Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

First UK edition
First UK edition
Matilda the Musical has been performed at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End since November 2011. Pictured in July 2016.

It opened at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End on 24 November 2011.

Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss

East End of London

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Historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.

Historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.

Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss
The River Lea at Stratford, with the Olympic Stadium under construction in June 2011
Aldgate Pump: the symbolic start of the East End
The extramural eastern wards of Bishopsgate Without and the Portsoken.
The Tower of London was the administrative and geographic cornerstone of the Tower Division
London in 1300, development is mainly limited to the walled area.
The first Bethlem (or Bedlam) Hospital, outside Bishopsgate, beside the Deepditch, a part of the Walbrook river.
Ogilby & Morgan's 1673 map of London. The East End is developing outside Bishopsgate, Aldgate and along the river - it is separated from the other extramural suburbs by Moorfields
The East End in 1741–5, as depicted on John Rocque's [[John Rocque's Map of London, 1746#The Country Near Ten Miles Round|Exact Survey of the city's of London Westminster ye Borough of Southwark and the Country near ten miles round]]. London is expanding, but there are still large areas of fields to the east of the City.
1882 Reynolds Map of the East End. Development has now eliminated the open fields shown on the earlier map.
Part of Charles Booth's poverty map showing the Old Nichol slum. Published 1889 in Life and Labour of the People in London. The red areas are "middle class, well-to-do", light blue areas are "poor, 18s to 21s a week for a moderate family", dark blue areas are "very poor, casual, chronic want", and black areas are the "lowest class...occasional labourers, street sellers, loafers, criminals and semi-criminals".
Boundary Estate bandstand was built on the rubble from the clearance of the Old Nichol slum.
Royal Albert Dock, 1973
Isambard Kingdom Brunel against the launching chains of the Great Eastern at Millwall in 1857
Stratford and Liverpool Street (pictured) stations, are among the busiest in the UK.
The London 2012 Opening Ceremony portrayed the trauma of the Industrial Revolution
Redevelopment on the Isle of Dogs
Canary Wharf (view from the Thames) (pictured in 2016)
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 2014
Brick Lane has been a centre for new immigration through the centuries
The East London Mosque was one of the first in Britain to be allowed to use loudspeakers to broadcast the adhan.
Anti-immigration poster, from 1902
The Olympic Bell, at the London Stadium.
Dunstan was a 10th-century English saint closely linked to the East End.
The Bethnal Green Mulberry, the East End's oldest tree.
Tower Hamlets men bolstered the Tower of London garrison
The World Cup Sculpture at Upton Park
Pearly King and Queen
William Booth founded the Salvation Army, in Whitechapel, in 1878
Lady Burdett-Coutts
Sylvia Pankhurst 1882–1960
Canning Town greets Gandhi. Gandhi lived among ordinary East Enders for three months in 1931.
Yorkist defenders sally from Aldgate (possibly Bishopsgate)
Deaths among women, children and the elderly shocked the public.
Heinkel He 111 bomber over the Surrey Commercial Docks in South London and Wapping and the Isle of Dogs on 7 September 1940
Children of an eastern suburb of London, made homeless by the Blitz
Prefabricated post-war home at Chiltern Open Air Museum: Universal House, steel frame clad with corrugated asbestos cement
The Bywell Castle bears down upon the Princess Alice, 1878
The launch of HMS Albion at Thames Ironworks in 1898 caused a displacement wave that killed 38 people.
The Gabriel Franks of the Marine Support Unit of the Metropolitan Police, named after the first marine police officer killed in the line of duty
Curtain Theatre, c. 1600 (some sources identify this as a depiction of The Theatre, the other Elizabethan theatre in Shoreditch)
1867 Poster from the National Standard Theatre, Shoreditch
Hoxton Hall, still an active community resource and performance space
Gus Elen, The Coster's Mansion, 1899 sheet music

In the 19th century the East End's theatres rivalled those of the West End in their grandeur and seating capacity.

City of Westminster

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City and borough in Inner London which forms a core part of Central London.

City and borough in Inner London which forms a core part of Central London.

Detail of cast iron lamp post bearing the Shield of the City of Westminster
Westminster City Hall, completed in 1965
A map showing the wards of Westminster since 2002
Piccadilly Circus
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster and usually refers to both the clock and the clock tower (Elizabeth Tower).
Marylebone station
The main entrance to the London School of Economics
Charing Cross Library

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