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London's West End includes an eclectic mix of theaters, restaurants, shops, boutiques, movie theatres, gambling casinos, and hotels. It is
hard to imagine that Leicester Square, the animated heart of the West End
entertainment district, was once a fashionable place to live. The
square was laid out in 1670 south of Leicester House, a long gone royal
residence. In Victorian times several of London's most popular music
halls were established here including the Alhambra, replaced by the Art
Deco Odeon Movie Theatre.
London
offers an extraordinary range of theatrical entertainment--this is one of
the world's great stages, and at its best, standards of quality are
extremely high. The British are passionate about theatre and
London's theaters reflect every nuance of this passion. One can
stroll along a street of West End theaters and find a patriotic musical
classic such as Les Miserable and then find showing near an
absurdly bawdy farce as Jerry Springer: The Opera. Amid
such diversity there is always something to appeal to everyone.
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