The Latest Breaking News from the West End

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,…

The public are also being asked to send in a selfie for the Take A Moment project, which is on show in the West End

We had taken out the insurance after booking for The Pillowman in the West End, but it has refused a refund when we had to cancel

City voices: Fashion giants such as Burberry have shown their faith in London — the Government must reciprocate

Other lives: Theatrical designer who created sets for theatres in the West End and on Broadway

London is surging back. Anyone who has been to the West End can see the city is crowded again. If you feared Covid would do for London, think again: bars, restaurants, theatres are enjoying a roaring trade. The Tube and buses are packed, cycle lanes busy. Cabs, too. One cab…