Looking down Argyll Street to Liberty Department Store, West End.

Geoff Stringer

The West End

Encompassing many of London’s poshest neighbourhoods as well as superlative restaurants, hotels and shops, the West End should be your first port of call. Iconic locations (Trafalgar Sq, Piccadilly Circus), buildings and museums (Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, British Museum), nightlife (Soho), shopping (Oxford St, Covent Garden, New and Old Bond Sts), parks (St James’s Park) and theatres – they are all in the West End.


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Celebrities West End Braodway - Gwendoline Christie leads the cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bridge Theatre, London. Gwendoline stands in front of the other cast members, posed around a wrought iron bed, in a floor-length, white silk gown © Perou

Art

Celebrities on stage: what and who to see in the West End and Broadway

May 24, 2019 • 5 min read

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