West End theatre

London's Palace Theatre built in 1891

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.^[1] Along with New York'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]

Total attendances first surpassed 12 million in 2002 and then 13 million in 2007,^[2] setting a new record for the West End. In 2013, ticket sales reached a record 14.5 million.^[3] Famous screen actors regularly appear on the London stage.^[4]

History

The Theatre in London flourished after the English Reformation. The first permanent public playhouse, known simply 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. These theatres were closed in 1642 due to the Puritans who would later influence the interregnum of 1649.

After the Restoration (1660), 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. 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.^[5][6]

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,^[7][8] it operated as a "Musick House", with performances of opera; as it was not licensed for plays. In the West End, the Haymarket Theatre opened on 29 December 1720 on a site slightly north of its current location, and the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden opened in Covent Garden on 7 December 1732.

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 in the East End at Shoreditch and Whitechapel.

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.^[6] The theatre building boom continued until about World War I.

The London Opera Glass Company was founded in 1913 and has provided opera glasses for many West End theatres.^[9][10]

During the 1950s and 1960s, many plays were produced in theatre clubs, in order 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

The Lyceum Theatre, home to Disney's The Lion King.^[10]

"Theatreland", London's main theatre district, contains approximately forty venues and is located in and near the heart of the West End of central 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 theaters 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.^[11]

Many theatres in the West End are of late Victorian or Edwardian construction and are privately owned. The majority of them have great character, and the largest and best maintained feature grand neo-classical, Romanesque, or Victorian façades and luxurious, detailed interior design and decoration. On the other hand, 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,^[12] and stated that 60% of theatres had seats from which the stage was not fully visible.^[13] The theatre owners unsuccessfully requested tax concessions to help them meet the costs. Several incidents followed from 2004 onwards of falling plasterwork or performances being cancelled because of urgent building repairs being required culminating in the partial collapse of the ceiling of the Apollo Theatre in December 2013.^[14] Of these earlier incidents, only one led to people being hurt,^[15] but at the Apollo Theatre 76 people needed medical treatment for their injuries.^[16]

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^[17] In 2013, sales again rose this time by 11% to £585,506,455,^[18] with attendances rising to 14,587,276.^[19] This was despite slightly fewer performances occurring in 2013.^[20]

Long-running shows

The length of West End shows depend on ticket sales. Musicals tend to have longer runs than dramas. The longest-running musical in West End history is Les Misérables. 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 8 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.

The St Martin's Theatre, home to The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the world.

• The Mousetrap – opened 25 November 1952 at the Ambassadors Theatre, now playing at the St Martin's Theatre^[21] – 63rd year
• Les Misérables – opened 8 October 1985 at the Barbican, now playing at the Queen's Theatre^[22] – 30th year
• The Phantom of the Opera – opened 9 October 1986 at Her Majesty's Theatre^[23] – 29th year
• The Woman in Black – opened 15 February 1989 at the Strand Theatre, now playing at the Fortune Theatre^[24] – 27th year
• Blood Brothers – opened 27 August 1988 at the Albery Theatre, later transferring to the Phoenix Theatre and closed on 10 November 2012^[25] – 24 years
• Cats – opened 11 May 1981 at the New London Theatre and closed 11 May 2002 on its 21st anniversary^[26]
• Mamma Mia! – opened 6 April 1999 at the Prince Edward Theatre, moving later to the Prince of Wales Theatre and now playing at the Novello Theatre^[27] – 17th year
• Starlight Express – opened 27 March 1984 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre and closed 12 January 2002^[26] – 17 years
• No Sex Please, We're British – opened 3 June 1971 at the Strand Theatre and closed 16 January 1987^[26] – 16 years
• The Lion King – opened 19 October 1999 at the Lyceum Theatre^[28] – 16th year
• Chicago – opened 18 November 1997 at the Adelphi Theatre, transferring later to the Cambridge Theatre and the Garrick Theatre and closed 1 September 2012^[26] – 15 years
• Stomp – opened 25 September 2002 at the Vaudeville Theatre, later transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre opening on 27 September 2007^[29] – 13th year
• Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story – opened 12 October 1989 at the Victoria Palace Theatre, transferred to the Strand Theatre in October 1995 and closed 19 May 2002^[26] – 12 years
• We Will Rock You – opened 14 May 2002 and closed on 31 May 2014 at the Dominion Theatre^[30] – 12 years
• Billy Elliot the Musical – opened 11 May 2005 at the Victoria Palace Theatre and scheduled to close on 9 April 2016^[31] – 10 years
• The Black and White Minstrel Show – opened in 1962 at the Victoria Palace Theatre and closed about 1972^[26] – 10 years
• Miss Saigon – opened 20 September 1989 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and closed 30 October 1999^[26] – 10 years
• Wicked – opened 27 September 2006 at the Apollo Victoria Theatre^[32] – 10th year
• The 39 Steps – opened 20 September 2006 at the Criterion Theatre and closed on 5 September 2015 ^[33] – 9 years
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) – opened 7 March 1996 at the Criterion Theatre and closed on 3 April 2005^[26] – 9 years
• Jersey Boys – opened 18 March 2008 at the Prince Edward Theatre, transferred to the Piccadilly Theatre on 15 March 2014^[34] – 8th year
• Jesus Christ Superstar – opened 9 August 1972 at the Palace Theatre and closed about 1980^[26] – 8 years
• Me and My Girl (revival) – opened 12 February 1985 at the Adelphi Theatre and closed 16 January 1993^[26] – 8 years
• The Sound of Music – opened 18 May 1961 at the Palace Theatre and closed about 1968^[26] – 7 years
• Evita – opened 21 January 1978 at the Prince Edward Theatre and closed on 8 February 1986^[26] – 7 years
• Thriller – Live – opened 21 January 2009 at the Lyric Theatre^[35] – 7th year
• There's a Girl in My Soup – opened June 1966 at the Globe Theatre. Closed in 1973 after over a thousand performances^[26] – 6½ years
• War Horse – opened 3 April 2009 at the New London Theatre and will close on 12 March 2016^[36] – 6½ years
• Oliver! – opened 30 June 1960 at the New Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre) and closed about 1966^[26] – 6 years

List of West End theatres

• 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.

Theatre	Owner	Current production	Classification	Capacity	Opening date	Closing date
Adelphi Theatre	Really Useful Theatres Group	Kinky Boots[37]	Musical	1436	15 September 2015	Open-ended
Aldwych Theatre	Nederlander Organization	Beautiful: The Carole King Musical[38]	Musical	1176	24 February 2015	Open-ended
Ambassadors Theatre	Stephen Waley-Cohen	Stomp	Physical Theatre	450	4 October 2007	Open-ended
Apollo Theatre	Nimax Theatres	The Go-Between[39]	Musical	658[40]	7 June 2016*	15 October 2016
Apollo Victoria Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	Wicked	Musical	2384	27 September 2006	Open-ended
Arts Theatre	JJ Goodman Ltd.	A View From Islington North[41]	Play	350[42]	24 May 2016*	2 July 2016
Cambridge Theatre	Really Useful Theatres Group	Matilda the Musical	Musical	1283	24 November 2011	Open-ended
Criterion Theatre	Criterion Theatre Trust	The Comedy About a Bank Robbery[43]	Play	591[44]	21 April 2016	Open-ended
Dominion Theatre	Nederlander Organization	The Bodyguard[45]	Musical	2001	21 July 2016*	7 January 2017
Duchess Theatre	Nimax Theatres	The Play That Goes Wrong[46]	Play	494[47]	14 September 2014	Open-ended
Duke of York's Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	Doctor Faustus[48]	Play	650	25 April 2016	25 June 2016
Fortune Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	The Woman in Black	Play	440	7 June 1989	Open-ended
Garrick Theatre	Nimax Theatres	Romeo and Juliet[49]	Play	718[50]	25 May 2016*	13 August 2016
Gielgud Theatre	Delfont Mackintosh Theatres	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time[51]	Play	889	8 July 2014	Open-ended
Harold Pinter Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	Sunny Afternoon[52]	Musical	796	28 October 2014	Open-ended
Her Majesty's Theatre	Really Useful Theatres Group	The Phantom of the Opera	Musical	1161	9 October 1986	Open-ended
London Palladium	Really Useful Theatres Group	Cinderella	Pantomime	2286	14 December 2016*	15 January 2017
Lyceum Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	The Lion King	Musical	2100	19 October 1999	Open-ended
Lyric Theatre	Nimax Theatres	Thriller – Live	Musical	915[53]	21 January 2009	Open-ended
New London Theatre	Really Useful Theatres Group	Show Boat[54]	Musical	1108	25 April 2016	7 January 2017
Noël Coward Theatre	Delfont Mackintosh Theatres	Mrs Henderson Presents[55]	Musical	872	16 February 2016	18 June 2016
Novello Theatre	Delfont Mackintosh Theatres	Mamma Mia!	Musical	1143	6 September 2012	Open-ended
Palace Theatre	Nimax Theatres	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child[56]	Play	1400[57]	30 July 2016*	Open-ended
Phoenix Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	Guys and Dolls[58]	Musical	1000	19 March 2016	30 October 2016
Piccadilly Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	Jersey Boys[59]	Musical	1200	15 March 2014	Open-ended
Playhouse Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	The End of Longing[60]	Play	786	11 February 2016	14 May 2016
Prince Edward Theatre	Delfont Mackintosh Theatres	Aladdin[61]	Musical	1618	15 June 2016*	Open-ended
Prince of Wales Theatre	Delfont Mackintosh Theatres	The Book of Mormon	Musical	1160	21 March 2013	Open-ended
Queen's Theatre	Delfont Mackintosh Theatres	Les Misérables	Musical	1099	12 April 2004	Open-ended
Savoy Theatre	Ambassador Theatre Group	Funny Girl[62]	Musical	1158	20 April 2016	8 October 2016
Shaftesbury Theatre	The Theatre of Comedy Company	Motown: The Musical[63]	Musical	1400	8 March 2016	Open-ended
St Martin's Theatre	Stephen Waley-Cohen	The Mousetrap	Play	550	25 March 1974	Open-ended
Theatre Royal, Haymarket	Crown Estate	How the Other Half Loves[64]	Play	888	31 March 2016	25 June 2016
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane	Really Useful Theatres Group	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Musical	2196	25 June 2013	7 January 2017
Trafalgar Studios 1	Ambassador Theatre Group	The Maids[65]	Play	380	25 February 2016	21 May 2016
Trafalgar Studios 2	Ambassador Theatre Group	Boris: World King[66]	Play	100	21 April 2016	14 May 2016
Vaudeville Theatre	Nimax Theatres	Hobson's Choice[67]	Play	681[68]	8 June 2016*	10 September 2016
Victoria Palace Theatre	Delfont Mackintosh Theatres			1517
Wyndham's Theatre	Delfont Mackintosh Theatres	People, Places And Things[69]	Play	750	23 March 2016	18 June 2016

Upcoming productions

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.

Magic

• Impossible, Noël Coward Theatre^[70]

Musicals

• American Idiot, Arts Theatre^[71]
• An American in Paris, Dominion Theatre^[72]
• Dreamgirls, Savoy Theatre^[73]
• Murder Ballad, Arts Theatre^[74]
• School of Rock, London Palladium^[75]

Plays

• All That Fall, Arts Theatre^[76]
• Breakfast at Tiffany's, Theatre Royal, Haymarket^[77]
• The Entertainer, Garrick Theatre^[49]
• Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Wyndham's Theatre^[78]
• The Libertine, Theatre Royal, Haymarket^[79]
• Love's Labour's Lost/Much Ado About Nothing, Theatre Royal, Haymarket^[80]
• No Man's Land, Wyndham's Theatre^[81]
• No Villain, Trafalgar Studios 2^[82]
• Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Apollo Theatre
• The Spoils, Trafalgar Studios 1
• This House, Garrick Theatre^[83]
• This Is Living, Trafalgar Studios 2^[84]
• 1984, Playhouse Theatre^[85]

London's non-commercial theatres

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, the Royal Court Theatre, the Shakespeare's Globe, the Old Vic and Young Vic, the Hampstead Theatre, the Almeida Theatre, and the 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 Theatreland 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 unique among West End venues in many ways, not least in having three resident performance companies, the Royal Opera, Royal Ballet and a resident symphony orchestra. It has three performance spaces (the Main Auditorium, Linbury Theatre and Clore Studio) 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 theatre is also the largest in the west end, with 2359 seats spread over four levels.

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

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 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, 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

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

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

See also

• Culture of London
• List of London venues
• List of West End musicals
• List of notable musical theatre productions
• Musical theatre
• Great West End Theatres
• List of former theatres in London

Notes

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11. Michael Billington "Snooty about musicals? Sheila Hancock should change her tune", theguardian.com (blog), 16 March 2001
12. Giles Worsley "Falling Houses", telegraph.co.uk, 6 December 2003
13. Michael Billington "Crisis in the West End", The Guardian, 2 August 2007
14. Sarah Jane Griffiths "How safe is London's Theatreland?", BBC News, 20 December 2013
15. 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.
16. Alice Philipson, and Andrew Marszal "Apollo Theatre ceiling in London's West End collapses: scores injured", telegraph.co.uk, 20 December
17. http://www.solt.co.uk/downloads/pdfs/pressroom/2013-01-29-SOLT%202012-box-office-figures.pdf
18. Singh, Anita (29 January 2014). "West End audiences hit record high thanks to Twitter". telegraph.co.uk (London: The Telegraph). Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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26. "Long Runs – Broadway, Off Broadway, London, Toronto & Other Major Cities". World-theatres.com. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
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29. "Stomp – information on the show". WestEndTheatre.com. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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31. "Billy Elliot The Musical – information on the show". WestEndTheatre.com. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
32. "Wicked – information on the show". WestEndTheatre.com. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
33. "The 39 Steps – information on the show". WestEndTheatre.com. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
34. "Jersey Boys – information on the show". WestEndTheatre.com. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
35. "Thriller Live – information on the show". WestEndTheatre.com. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
36. "War Horse – information on the show". Retrieved 6 April 2014.
37. "Kinky Boots musical comes to London". bbc.co.uk/news (BBC News). 6 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
38. "Carole King Musical Beautiful opens in West End in 2015". whatsonstage.com. WhatsOnStage. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
39. "Michael Crawford to star in The Go-Between". whatsonstage.com. Whats On Stage. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
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44. "Technical Overview". criterion-theatre.co.uk. Criterion Theatre. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
45. "Beverley Knight returns to West End in The Bodyguard". whatsonstage.com. Whats On Stage. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
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48. "Kit Harington to star in Doctor Faustus in the West End". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
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50. "Garrick Theatre". nimaxtheatres.com. Garrick Theatre. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
51. "Curious Incident play changes venue after ceiling collapse". bbc.co.uk/news (BBC News). 8 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
52. "A Sunny Afternoon for London's West End! Dates Announced for Kinks Bio-Musical". broadway.com. Broadway.com. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
53. "Lyric Theatre". nimaxtheatres.com. Lyric Theatre. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
54. "Show Boat to open at the New London Theatre in April". westendframe.com. West End Frame. 12 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
55. "Mrs Henderson Presents transfers to the Noel Coward". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 9 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
56. "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play to open in West End in 2016". theguardian.com. The Guardian. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
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58. "Guys and Dolls to transfer to the Phoenix Theatre". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
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60. "Lindsay Posner to direct Friends star Matthew Perry in 'The End of Longing'". westendframe.com. West End Frame. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
61. "Disney's Aladdin coming to West End summer 2016?". Retrieved 2015-10-03.
62. "Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith transferring to the Savoy Theatre". westendframe.com. West End Frame. 30 October 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
63. "Motown the Musical Sets West End Dates and Theatre". playbill.com. Playbill. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
64. "Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves - Haymarket". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
65. "The Maids starring Uzo Aduba at Trafalgar Studios". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 6 November 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
66. "Boris: World King transfers to the Trafalgar Studios 2". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 17 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
67. "Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice at the Vaudeville". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
68. "Vaudeville Theatre". nimaxtheatres.com. Vaudeville Theatre. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
69. "People, Places and Things transfers to the Wyndham's". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 19 October 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
70. "Magic Show Impossible returns to the Noël Coward". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
71. "Green Day's American Idiot starring Amelia Lily at Arts". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 8 April 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
72. "An American in Paris show to dance into West End in 2017". bbc.co.uk/news. BBC News. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
73. "Amber Riley to star in West End Dreamgirls - Savoy". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
74. "Kerry Ellis to star in Murder Ballad at the Arts Theatre". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
75. "School Of Rock pushes UK premiere to 2017". www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
76. "All That Fall transfers to the Arts Theatre". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
77. "Pixie Lott to star in Breakfast at Tiffany's – Haymarket". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
78. "Audra McDonald to star in Lady Day at the Wyndham's". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
79. "Dominic Cooper to star in The Libertine - Haymarket". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
80. "RSC announce new London season for 2016/17". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
81. "Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in No Man's Land". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
82. "No Villain transfers to the Trafalgar Studios 2". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
83. "This House to run at the Garrick Theatre". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
84. "This Is Living by Liam Borrett at the Trafalgar Studios 2". londontheatre.co.uk. London Theatre. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
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External links

• Society of London Theatre – trade body for the London theatre industry

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