The show was presented three times in London's West End.

Chess was staged in London's West End Prince Edward Theatre in May 1986, and ran for almost three years.

" At 14, shortly after his mother's relapse, he registered with a theatrical agency in London's West End.

Kane made her West End debut in January 2011 in a major revival of Lillian Hellman's drama The Children's Hour, at London's Comedy Theatre.

Introduced by Augustus John, Caitlin's lover, they met in The Wheatsheaf pub on Rathbone Place in London's West End.

The play was well received and transferred to the Savoy Theatre in London's West End, opening on 21 January 1929.

By the 1980s, financiers grew increasingly confident in the musical genre, partly buoyed by the relative health of the musical on Broadway and London's West End.

Peake placed much hope in his play The Wit To Woo which was finally staged in London's West End in 1957, but it was a critical and commercial failure.

The lights of Times Square were turned off for one minute, and London's West End lights were dimmed in recognition of his contribution to the musical.

* Phoenix Theatre ( London ), a theatre in London's West End

In 2011 the play was revived in a production directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, opening at Chichester Festival Theatre before transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End ( June-August 2011 ).

In between the world wars, men's footwear received significant innovation and design, led by cobblers and cordwainers in London's West End.

The show ran at The Comedy Theatre in London's West end in 1965.

*** West End – popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's ' Theatreland ', the West End.

Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

Curry reprised this role in London's West End at the Palace Theatre, where Spamalot opened on 16 October 2006.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

She attended one of O ' Sullivan's films playing in London's West End and told her parents of her ambitions to become an actress.

During this period he was also involved in doping of dogs in greyhound racing and was associating with criminal elements in the London's West End night clubs.

The production was very well received and transferred to London's West End opening at the Prince Edward Theatre in October 1998, transferring to the Prince of Wales Theatre where it closed in January 2000.

David Benson's 1996 Edinburgh Fringe show, Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams, saw Benson playing Williams ; after touring, the show ran in London's West End.

In 1976, his one-man show The Thoughts of Chairman Alf won the Evening Standard award for best comedy in London's West End.

Its name derives from the West Minster, or monastery church, west of the City of London's St Paul's.

Many mobile shellfish stalls would set up near pubs, a practice that continues in London's East End.

Students From Stagecoach Kidderminster have performed in London's West End.

Crisp left home to move to the centre of London at the end of 1930 and, after dwelling in a succession of flats, found a bed-sitting room in Denbigh Street, where he " held court with London's brightest and roughest characters.

Despite attempts by his friends and family to get him to move on to a more respectable position for his age, such as a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) or a Circuit Judge ( referred to as Queer Customers and Circus Judges by Rumpole ), he only enjoys the simple pleasure of defending his clients ( who are often legal aid cases ) at the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court: " the honour of being an Old Bailey Hack ," as he describes his work.

Isaacs, the paper states, turned down the chance of a temporary move to the Lyceum Theatre almost next door to the opera house, pinning his hopes on a proposed new temporary building on London's South Bank.

Later in the year it moved The Regent Theatre in Melbourne and in May 2008 will move to Auckland's The Civic theatre in New Zealand, and is currently featuring in London's West End.

During this period, the interest in R & B and soul music increased, with a small number of clubs and bars holding events ; such as Henri's at the Bedford Head in London's Covent Garden, 6T's ( later to move to the Starlight club in West Hampstead, which in turn moved to 100 Club ), the Top Alex in Southend, the Hercules in Lambeth North, The Castle in Tooting, Cheeky Pete's in Richmond, the Mildmay Tavern in Dalston, and the Crystal Palace Hotel.

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

She released her second live DVD and album, Live From London in October 2009, which was filmed during her sold out 2008 concerts at London's O2 Arena.

Taking in Europe and North America, the tour opened at London's annual Meltdown festival, for which Bowie was that year appointed artistic director.

Orwell's investigation of poverty in The Road to Wigan Pier strongly resembles that of Jack London's The People of the Abyss, in which the American journalist disguises himself as an out-of-work sailor in order to investigate the lives of the poor in London.

In July 1982, the opening of the Batcave in London's Soho provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which would be briefly labeled " positive punk " by the NME in a special issue with a front cover in early 1983.

Gin, though, was blamed for various social problems, and it may have been a factor in the higher death rates which stabilized London's previously growing population, although there is no evidence for this and it is merely conjecture.

The airport sustains 76, 600 jobs directly and around 116, 000 indirectly in the immediate area, and this, together with the large number of global corporations with offices close to the airport, makes Heathrow a modern aerotropolis which contributes an estimated 2. 7 % to London's total GVA.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

In 1954, Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics for Saturday Night, which was never produced on Broadway and was shelved until a 1997 production at London's Bridewell Theatre.

Other notable commercial talk stations include London's LBC which pioneered the newstalk format in Europe.

The current colours are taken from Transport for London's colour standards guide, which defines the precise colours from the Pantone palette, and also a colour naming scheme that is particular to TfL.

** Victoria Coach Station, which owns and operates London's principal terminal for long distance bus and coach services.

* March 9 – Ronnie Kray murders George Cornell in east London's Blind Beggar pub, a crime for which he is finally convicted in 1969.

In Bea Arthur's Tony Award-nominated one-woman show, Just Between Friends, which she played on Broadway and in London's West End, Arthur performs Pierce's favorite joke, A Mother's Ingenuity.

Immigrants settled in the area, especially French Huguenots who poured in in 1688, after which the area became known as London's French quarter.

The GLA is different from the Corporation of the City of London with its largely ceremonial Lord Mayors, which controls only the square mile of the City, London's chief financial centre.

On 1 December 1976, Queen were the intended guests on London's early evening Today programme, but they pulled out at the last-minute, which saw their late replacement on the show, EMI labelmate the Sex Pistols, give their seminal interview.

Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been his " wife " and also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself " Florence Wellman Chaney ".

His struggles there inspired London's short story, " To Build a Fire ", which many critics assess as his best.

According to Arthur Croxton, the manager of London's Coliseum, the amputation was not apparent during her performances, which were done with the use of an artificial limb.

The symbolism of London's landmarks is explored in the fourth chapter, in which Gull explains his motives to his uncomprehending coachman, and employs psychogeography to tie together these landmarks with the city's history.

Between 1868 and 1877, Carte wrote and published the music for a number of his own songs and instrumental works, as well as several comic operas: Doctor Ambrosias – His Secret, at St. George's Hall ( 1868 ); Marie, with librettist E. Spencer Mott, at London's Opera Comique in 1871 ; and Happy Hampstead, with librettist Frank Desprez, which debuted on an 1876 provincial tour and then played at the Royalty Theatre in 1877.

Adding to London's woes, but marking the end of the plague, was what later became known as the Great Fire of London, which started on 2 September 1666.