The Latest Breaking News from the West End

Foreign tourists will lead the festive spending charge says New West End Company

I don’t get scared in London. Not really. If you know a place well — and I’ve lived here most of my life — you learn to avoid the places where danger lurks. You learn to body swerve the West End at midnight at the weekend, know which dodgy pubs…

999 crews have raced to the West End of Glasgow tonight following reports of two people in the River Kelvin.

A major modern art museum has been approved for Oxford Street in a “huge vote of confidence in London and the West End”.

Oxford Street was built for lunchtime. At least it was for me. When I worked in the West End, if I wasn’t having a fancy lunch, at one o’clock I’d nip out from my office and spend the best part of an hour wandering up and down it, dipping into…

Audiences are flocking back to Theatreland but beyond the bright lights, venues are struggling in the economic headwinds

City Comment: My hunch is that there will be little hint of an early present for the West End

More than 350 businesses have called for the reintroduction of tax-free shopping for international tourists to help boost the West End.

When it came to the West End in 2007, “The Lord of the Rings” was a “notorious flop”, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. A spectacular mega-musical, incorporating folk, Bollywood influences and pop, it had cost a record-breaking £12.5m to stage, at the 2,000- seat Theatre Royal Drury Lane,…