Music & Theatre
Featured music venues
Purcell RoomThe Purcell Room is part of the Southbank Centre, with the National Theatre and Royal Festival Hall.
Wigmore HallWigmore Hall is a favourite venue for classical music, with some of the best acoustics in London.
Live music venues
Here is a list of London’s most popular music venues and concert halls.Barbican Centre (events) · Cadogan Hall (events) · Purcell Room (events) · Queen Elizabeth Hall (events) · Ronnie Scott’s (events) · Royal Albert Hall (events) · Royal Festival Hall (events) · Royal Opera House (events) · Southbank Centre (events) · Wigmore Hall (events)
London film and cinema
BFI Southbank (events) · BFI IMAX Cinema (events) · Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) (events)
London music guides
Piet Schreuders
Our price: £9.09
Graham Vickers
Our price: £4.95
BBC
Our price: £5.99
Stefan Granados
Our price: £10.49
Latest music events
>> Live music events in London
- Catch the Blue Man Group’s Megastar World Tour
- 15th February 2009
- Catch the Blue Man Group's peculiar brand of dance, music and theatre when their Megastar World Tour hits the O2 Arena on the 15th February.
- See Michel Legrand and Alison Moyet
- 12th – 14th February 2009
- Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand will be performing at the Shaw Theatre, with 80s pop singer Alison Moyet. The concert will include music from his classic film scores.
- Listen to some classical music at Wigmore Hall
- 12th February 2009
- Wigmore Hall will be hosting a performance by the Academy of Ancient Music, playing classical works by Vivaldi, Purcell and Handel.
- Catch Keane live — at the O2 Arena
- 12th – 13th February 2009
- Go and see "Keane" live in concert at the O2 Arena -- where they will be performing songs from their brand-new album "Perfect Symmetry".
You can talk about all the West End theatres and other music venues in our chat forum, and find where they are with our street map of London
Featured theatres
Theatre RoyalTheatre Royal dates from 1812. A couple of ghosts are said to drift around from past productions.
Shaftesbury AvenueShaftesbury Avenue is the heart of the West End – home to London’s theatre and music district.
London’s theatres
Here is a list of London’s most popular West End theatres…Adelphi Theatre (events) · Albery Theatre (events) · Aldwych Theatre (events) · Apollo Theatre (events) · Cambridge Theatre (events) · Comedy Theatre (events) · Criterion Theatre (events) · Dominion Theatre (events) · Donmar Warehouse (events) · Duchess Theatre (events) · Duke of York’s Theatre (events) · Fortune Theatre (events) · Garrick Theatre (events) · Gielgud Theatre (events) · Globe Theatre (events) · Hampstead Theatre (events) · Her Majesty’s Theatre (events) · King’s Head Theatre (events) · London Coliseum (events) · London Palladium (events) · Lyceum Theatre (events) · Lyric Theatre (events) · National Theatre (events) · New Ambassadors Theatre (events) · New London Theatre (events) · Novello Theatre (events) · Old Vic (events) · Palace Theatre (events) · Phoenix Theatre (events) · Piccadilly Theatre (events) · Playhouse Theatre (events) · Prince Edward Theatre (events) · Prince of Wales Theatre (events) · Queen’s Theatre (events) · St. Martin’s Theatre (events) · Savoy Theatre (events) · Shaftesbury Theatre (events) · Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (events) · Theatre Royal, Haymarket (events) · Trafalgar Studios (events) · Vaudeville Theatre (events) · Victoria Palace Theatre (events) · Wyndham’s Theatre (events) · Young Vic (events)
London theatre guides
Ronald Bergan
Our price: £11.89
Athol Rheeder
Our price: £11.87
Richard Andrews
Our price: £8.99
Stanley Green
Our price: £12.99
Latest theatre shows
>> Latest theatre shows in London
- Catch the Blue Man Group’s Megastar World Tour
- 15th February 2009
- Catch the Blue Man Group's peculiar brand of dance, music and theatre when their Megastar World Tour hits the O2 Arena on the 15th February.
- Mark Little’s comedy “Defending the Caveman”
- 3rd February – 15th March 2009
- The Leicester Square Theatre is hosting a production of "Defending the Caveman", with australian comedian Mark Little. He is best known as Joe Mangel in "Neighbours" -- but now his award-winning one-man comedy show is set to change our tune.
- See “Dick Whittington” at the King’s Head Theatre
- 1st – 8th February 2009
- Dick Whittington is a popular Christmas panto and tells the tale of thrice times Lord Mayor of London Dick Whittington, who turns back to the city upon hearing the bells chiming. You can catch it for a week at the King's Head Theatre in Islington.
- The Pitman Painters, at the National Theatre
- 31st January – 17th February 2009
- The National Theatre is putting on a new play by Lee Hall -- "The Pitman Painters". This was the same guy who wrote "Billy Elliott", and it explores similar fish-out-of-water themes. It tells the true tale of a group of adult miners who take up art.
