Editing Covent Garden (section)

==Culture==
The Covent Garden area has long been associated with entertainment and shopping.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpf2OBfjNlgC&pg=PA330 |title=Party Earth – Europe |edition=4th |page=330 |publisher=Party Earth LLC |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-9761120-7-5 |access-date=25 October 2015 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729181351/https://books.google.com/books?id=cpf2OBfjNlgC&pg=PA330 |url-status=live}}</ref> Covent Garden has 13 theatres,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.covent-garden.co.uk/Theatres/index.html |title=Theatres Index Page |publisher=Covent Garden Street Site |access-date=25 August 2010 |archive-date=26 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626095724/http://www.covent-garden.co.uk/Theatres/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and over 60 pubs and bars, with most south of Long Acre, around the main shopping area of the old market.<ref name=pubs>{{cite web |url=http://www.fancyapint.com/area/00273.php |title=Pubs in Covent Garden |publisher=Fancyapint? |access-date=30 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602013017/http://www.fancyapint.com/Pub/az/covent-garden/222 |archive-date=2 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The Seven Dials area in the north of Covent Garden was home to the punk rock club [[The Roxy (Covent Garden)|The Roxy]] in 1977,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/oct/04/roxymusic |title=Roxy music |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=25 August 2010 |date=4 October 2007 |archive-date=27 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427212627/http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/oct/04/roxymusic |url-status=live}}</ref> and the area remains focused on young people with its trendy mid-market retail outlets.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEAL132QYQUC&pg=PA220 |title=Frommer's London with Kids |author=Rhonda Carrier |page=220 |publisher=Frommer's |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7645-4993-9 |access-date=25 October 2015 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729180917/https://books.google.com/books?id=jEAL132QYQUC&pg=PA220 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Street performance===

[[File:2005-04-09 - United Kingdom - England - London - Covent Garden Performer 4887800166.jpg|thumb|Street entertainment in Covent Garden Market, April 2005]]

Street entertainment at Covent Garden was noted in [[Samuel Pepys]]'s diary in May 1662, when he recorded the first mention of a [[Punch and Judy]] show in Britain.<ref>{{cite web |title=Covent Garden and the story of Punch and Judy |author=Glyn Edwards |publisher=Covent Garden Life |url=http://www.coventgardenlife.com/info/street_entertainers/punch_judy/punch_judy.htm |access-date=31 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417100337/http://www.coventgardenlife.com/info/street_entertainers/punch_judy/punch_judy.htm |archive-date=17 April 2008}}</ref> Impromptu performances of song and swimming were given by local celebrity William Cussans in the eighteenth century.<ref>{{cite book |author=John Thomas Smith |author-link=John Thomas Smith (engraver) |title=Nollekens and his times, volume 2 |chapter=Cussans |year=1829 |publisher=H. Colburn |url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nollekens_and_his_times,_volume_2/Cussans# |pages=285–286 |access-date=7 May 2011 |archive-date=18 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118163130/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nollekens_and_his_times,_volume_2/Cussans |url-status=live}}</ref> Covent Garden is licensed for street entertainment, and performers audition for timetabled slots in a number of venues around the market, including the North Hall, West Piazza, and South Hall Courtyard. The courtyard space is dedicated to classical music only.

There are street performances at Covent Garden Market every day of the year, except Christmas Day. Shows run throughout the day and are about 30 minutes in length. In March 2008, the market owner, CapCo, proposed to reduce street performances to one 30-minute show each hour.<ref>{{cite news |title=Buskers fear 'thin end of wedge' |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7316214.stm |date=27 March 2008 |access-date=2 May 2011 |archive-date=4 June 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604175942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7316214.stm |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Pubs and bars===
[[File:Freemasons Arms - Long Acre - WC2.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Freemasons Arms in [[Long Acre (street)|Long Acre]]]]

The Covent Garden area has over 60 pubs and bars; several of them are listed buildings, with some also on [[Campaign for Real Ale|CAMRA]]'s [[National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors]];<ref name="CAMRA">{{cite web |url=http://www.camranorthlondon.org.uk/londonpubsgroup/crawls.html#017 |title=London Pubs Group Evening Crawl of The Strand and Covent Garden |publisher=CAMRA North London |access-date=7 May 2011 |date=23 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716031236/http://www.camranorthlondon.org.uk/londonpubsgroup/crawls.html#017 |archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref> some, such as [[The Harp]] in Chandos Place, have received consumer awards. The Harp's awards include [[SPBW London Pub of the Year|London Pub of the Year]] in 2008 by the [[Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood]], and [[National Pub of the Year]] by CAMRA in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.harpcoventgarden.com/reviews-awards/# |title=The Harp – Reviews and Awards |publisher=The Harp Bar, Covent Garden |access-date=16 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320124651/http://www.harpcoventgarden.com/reviews-awards/ |archive-date=20 March 2012}}</ref><ref name=advertiser>{{cite news |author=Michelle Perrett |url=http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Running-your-pub/Training/The-Harp-in-Covent-Garden-a-national-treasure |title=The Harp in Covent Garden: a national treasure |newspaper=Morning Advertiser |access-date=16 February 2011 |date=16 February 2011 |archive-date=3 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103175433/https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2011/02/16/The-Harp-in-Covent-Garden-a-national-treasure |url-status=live}}</ref> It was at one time owned by the [[Charrington Brewery]], when it was known as The Welsh Harp;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spbw.com/lpoty2008.html |title=Greater London Pub of the Year 2008 |publisher=The Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood |access-date=16 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716114133/http://www.spbw.com/lpoty2008.html |archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref> in 1995 the name was abbreviated to just The Harp,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://deadpubs.co.uk/LondonPubs/StMartins/WelshHarp.shtml |title=Welsh Harp, 47 Chandos Street, St Martins in Fields |publisher=Dead Pubs |access-date=16 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521025610/http://deadpubs.co.uk/LondonPubs/StMartins/WelshHarp.shtml |archive-date=21 May 2012}}</ref> before Charrington sold it to [[Punch Taverns]] in 1997. It was eventually purchased by the landlady Binnie Walsh around 2010 then subsequently sold by her to [[Fuller's Brewery]] in 2014.<ref name=advertiser/> It continues to win regular CAMRA pub awards under its new owners.

The [[Lamb and Flag, Covent Garden|Lamb and Flag]] in Rose Street is possibly the oldest pub in the area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pubs.com/main_site/pub_details.php?pub_id=136 |title=The Lamb and Flag |publisher=Pubs.com |access-date=30 July 2010 |archive-date=2 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602211752/http://www.pubs.com/main_site/pub_details.php?pub_id=136 |url-status=live}}</ref> The first mention of a pub on the site is 1772 (when it was called the Cooper's Arms – the name changing to Lamb & Flag in 1833); the 1958 brick exterior conceals what may be an early 18th-century frame of a house replacing the original one built in 1638.<ref name=Floral>{{cite book |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46110 |title=Survey of London: volume 36: Covent Garden |pages=182–184 |year=1970 |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |author=F. H. W. Sheppard |access-date=30 July 2010 |archive-date=25 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525094344/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46110 |url-status=live}}</ref> The pub acquired a reputation for staging bare-knuckle prize fights during the early 19th century when it earned the nickname "Bucket of Blood".<ref>{{cite book |author1=Darwin Porter |author2=Danforth Prince |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v66bMh6yqfsC&pg=PA215 |title=Frommer's England 2008 |page=215 |publisher=Frommer's |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-470-13819-9 |access-date=25 October 2015 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729181427/https://books.google.com/books?id=v66bMh6yqfsC&pg=PA215 |url-status=live}}</ref> The alleyway beside the pub was the scene of an attack on [[John Dryden]] in 1679 by thugs hired by [[John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester]],<ref>{{cite book |author=John Richardson |url=https://archive.org/details/annalsoflondonye00rich |url-access=registration |title=The Annals of London |page=[https://archive.org/details/annalsoflondonye00rich/page/156 156] |publisher=University of California Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-520-22795-6}}</ref> with whom he had a long-standing conflict.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of |volume= 23 | pages = 427&ndash;428; see page 428, second para, 7 and 8 lines from end |quote=Rochester chose to pretend that this was Dryden's work, not Mulgrave's, and by his orders a band of roughs set on the poet in Rose Alley, Covent Garden}}</ref>

[[The Salisbury, Covent Garden|The Salisbury]] in St Martin's Lane was built as part of a six-storey block around 1899 on the site of an earlier pub that had been known under several names, including the Coach & Horses and Ben Caunt's Head; it is both Grade II listed, and on CAMRA's National Inventory, due to the quality of the etched and polished glass and the carved woodwork, summed up as "good [[fin de siècle]] ensemble".<ref name="CAMRA" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/historic-pub-interior-entry.asp?pubid=47 |title=St Martins Lane |work=Heritage Pubs |access-date=16 January 2015 |archive-date=8 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908150536/http://www.heritagepubs.org.uk/pubs/historic-pub-interior-entry.asp?pubid=47 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Freemasons Arms on Long Acre is linked with the founding of [[the Football Association]] in 1863;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shepherdneame.co.uk/pubs/covent-garden/freemasons-arms |title=Welcome to The Freemasons Arms, Covent Garden |work=shepherdneame.co.uk/pubs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107120416/http://www.shepherdneame.co.uk/pubs/covent-garden/freemasons-arms |archive-date=7 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H0l2T7tLSiEC&pg=PA25 |page=25 |title=Football/Soccer: History and Tactics |author=Jaime Orejan |publisher=McFarland |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-7864-8566-6 |access-date=25 October 2015 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729182004/https://books.google.com/books?id=H0l2T7tLSiEC&pg=PA25 |url-status=live}}</ref> however, the meetings took place at The [[Freemason's Tavern]] on Great Queen Street, which was replaced in 1909 by the Connaught Rooms.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thefa.com/about-football-association/history |title=The History of The FA |work=thefa.com |access-date=7 January 2014 |archive-date=25 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125012322/http://www.thefa.com/about-football-association/history |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/freemasons-tavern |title=Freemasons' Tavern |work=londonremembers.com |access-date=7 January 2014 |archive-date=27 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027120544/https://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/freemasons-tavern |url-status=live}}</ref>

Other Grade II listed pubs include three 19th century rebuilds of 17th century/18th century houses, the Nell Gwynne Tavern in Bull Inn Court,<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num= 1066336|desc= The Nell Gwynne Tavern public house |access-date= 1 October 2014}}</ref> the Nag's Head on James Street,<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num= 1277358|desc= The Nag's Head |access-date= 1 October 2014}}</ref> and the White Swan on New Row;<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num= 1224986|desc=White Swan public house |access-date= 1 October 2014}}</ref> a Victorian pub built by lessees of the Marquis of Exeter, the Old Bell on the corner of Exeter Street and Wellington Street;<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num= 1211790|desc= The Old Bell public house |access-date= 1 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol36/pp226-229 |title=Survey of London: Volume 36, Covent Garden |chapter=Southampton Street and Tavistock Street Area: Wellington Street |author=F. H. W. Sheppard |publisher=London County Council |date=1970 |pages=226–229 |location=London |via=British History Online |access-date=16 January 2015 |archive-date=16 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116135600/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol36/pp226-229 |url-status=live}}</ref> and a late 18th or early 19th century pub the Angel and Crown on St Martin's Lane.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num= 1236047|desc= The Angel and Crown public house |access-date= 1 October 2014}}</ref>

===Restaurants===
There is a wide range of restaurants, mainly in Covent Garden's central area around the piazza, and in the St Martin's Lane area bordering the West End; some of these with international reputations.<ref name=ENTS120>{{cite web |url=http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Covent_Garden_ENTS_SPG_July_2006.pdf |work=westminster.gov.uk |title=Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance for Entertainment Uses |page=120 & 127 |date=July 2006 |access-date=17 November 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924105503/http://www3.westminster.gov.uk/docstores/publications_store/Covent_Garden_ENTS_SPG_July_2006.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> Among the restaurants are the historic theatrical eating places, the oldest of which is [[Rules (restaurant)|Rules]], which was founded in 1798, making it the oldest restaurant in London,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sRhSED-Up1UC&pg=PA120 |page=120 |title=Theatreland: A Journey Through the Heart of London's Theatre |author=Paul Ibell |publisher=A&C Black |date=1 July 2009 |isbn=978-1-84725-003-2 |access-date=26 August 2017 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729183925/https://books.google.com/books?id=sRhSED-Up1UC&pg=PA120 |url-status=live}}</ref> followed by J. Sheekey, an oyster bar and fish restaurant founded in 1893 by market-stall holder Josef Sheekey in [[Lord Salisbury]]'s St Martin's Court,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/reviews/j-sheekey-oyster-bar-28-32-st-martinrsquos-court-london-wc2-020-7240-2565-1642785.html |author=John Walsh |date=14 March 2009 |title=J Sheekey Oyster Bar |work=independent.co.uk |access-date=26 August 2017 |archive-date=3 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903123644/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/reviews/j-sheekey-oyster-bar-28-32-st-martinrsquos-court-london-wc2-020-7240-2565-1642785.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Sex, Death & Oysters: A Half-shell Lover's World Tour |page=261 |author=Robb Walsh |publisher=Counterpoint |date=2009}}</ref> and [[The Ivy (United Kingdom)|The Ivy]], which was founded as an unlicensed Italian cafe by Abel Giandellini in 1917.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/04/ivy-restaurant-celebrity |author=Matthew Fort |title=The Ivy: dine with the stars |date=4 November 2010 |work=theguardian.com |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729000052/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/04/ivy-restaurant-celebrity |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.the-ivy.co.uk/general-information/history/ |work=the-ivy.co.uk |title=History |access-date=23 June 2016 |archive-date=6 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106004134/http://www.the-ivy.co.uk/general-information/history/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Other restaurants include [[Gaby's Deli]], a Jewish cafe and restaurant serving falafels and salt beef sandwiches since 1965,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/11/gabys-deli-theatreland-closure |author=Vanessa Thorpe |title=Stars unite to save the falafels that fuelled theatreland |date=11 December 2011 |work=theguardian.com |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-date=13 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813205824/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/11/gabys-deli-theatreland-closure |url-status=live}}</ref> and Mon Plaisir, founded in 1943, one of the oldest French restaurants in London.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3djuAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |page=37 |title=Behind the Doors of Notorious Covent Garden |author=Elizabeth Sharland |publisher=iUniverse |date=16 November 2009 |isbn=978-1-4401-8499-4 |access-date=26 August 2017 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729182041/https://books.google.com/books?id=3djuAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |page=33 |title=London |author=Ryan Ver Berkmoes |publisher=Lonely Planet Publications |date=2000}}</ref> Covent Garden was home to some of London's earliest coffee shops, such as [[Old Slaughter's Coffee House]], which ran from 1692 until 1843,<ref>{{cite book |title=[[The London Encyclopaedia]] |page=602 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5 |author1=Christopher Hibbert |author2=Ben Weinreb |author-link1=Christopher Hibbert |author-link2 = Ben Weinreb}}</ref> and a [[Beefsteak Club]], the Sublime Society of Beef Steaks, which was co-founded in 1736 by [[William Hogarth]] at the Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UWukBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 |page=60 |title=Biographies of Drink: A Case Study Approach to our Historical Relationship with Alcohol |author=Mark Hailwood, Deborah Toner |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |date=5 February 2015 |isbn=978-1-4438-7503-5 |access-date=26 August 2017 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729183100/https://books.google.com/books?id=UWukBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA60 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Cultural connections===
Covent Garden, and especially the market, have appeared in a number of works. It is the place where Job Trotter, character of the [[Pickwick Papers]] by [[Dickens]], spends the nights. In 1867, [[Johann Strauss II]] from Austria composed "Erinnerung an Covent Garden" (Memory of Covent Garden, op. 329). [[Eliza Doolittle]], the central character in [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s play, ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'', and the musical adaptation by [[Alan Jay Lerner]], ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', is a Covent Garden flower seller.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkrt0rHAQl8C&pg=PA43 |author=David S. White |title=Let's Take the Kids to London: A Family Travel Guide |page=43 |publisher=Take the Kids to London |year=2000 |isbn=0-595-13953-1 |access-date=25 October 2015 |archive-date=29 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729182057/https://books.google.com/books?id=tkrt0rHAQl8C&pg=PA43 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1972 film ''[[Frenzy]]'' about a Covent Garden fruit vendor who becomes a serial sex killer,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktSeoUGe_mgC&pg=PA142 |title=Covent Garden: The Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Markets |page=142 |publisher=Frances Lincoln Publishers |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7112-2860-3 |author1=Clive Boursnell |author2=Peter Ackroyd |author-link2=Peter Ackroyd |access-date=25 October 2015 |archive-date=4 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504045846/https://books.google.com/books?id=ktSeoUGe_mgC&pg=PA142 |url-status=live}}</ref> was set in the market where his father had been a wholesale greengrocer.<ref>{{cite web |author=Chuck Arrington |url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/1629/alfred-hitchcock-collection-frenzy-the/ |title=The Alfred Hitchcock Collection: Frenzy |publisher=DVD Talk |access-date=27 July 2010 |date=19 February 2001 |archive-date=28 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128015107/http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/1629/alfred-hitchcock-collection-frenzy-the/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The daily activity of the market was the topic of a 1957 [[Free Cinema]] documentary by [[Lindsay Anderson]], ''[[Every Day Except Christmas]]'', which won the Grand Prix at the Venice Festival of Shorts and Documentaries.<ref>{{cite web |author=Christophe Dupin |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/438953/ |title=Every Day Except Christmas (1957) |publisher=BFI Screenonline |access-date=27 July 2010 |archive-date=5 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805122846/http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/438953/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Covent Garden Festival===
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The '''Covent Garden Festival''', also known as the '''BOC Covent Garden Festival''' due to sponsorship by [[BOC (company)|BOC]], is or was a festival of music and musical theatre staged across various venues in early summer each year. It was run by administrator Kenneth Richardson from 1996 to 2001. Its impending closure was announced in late 2001, owing to lack of sponsorship for 2002.<ref name=webb>{{cite web| url=https://www.playbill.com/article/uks-covent-garden-festival-to-close-com-99129| first= Paul| last=Webb| date=13 October 2001| website= [[Playbill]]| title=UK's Covent Garden Festival to Close| access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref> However, official company records show incorporation in 1989 and ongoing registration {{as of|2022|lc=yes}}.<ref>{{cite web | title=Covent Garden Festival Limited: Overview |website=[[GOV.UK]]: Find and update company information | date=5 December 1989 | url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02449397 | access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>

Venues used for the festival have included the [[Bow Street Magistrates' Court]];<ref name=webb/> the Covent Garden piazza; the [[Royal Opera House]]; [[Cochrane Theatre]], [[Holborn]]; [[Peacock Theatre]] in [[Kingsway, London|Kingsway WC2]], venues at [[Lincoln's Inn]] and [[Temple, London|The Temple]]; and the [[Royal Courts of Justice]] on [[The Strand, London|The Strand]].<ref name=dunnett>{{cite web | last=Dunnett | first=Roderic | title=The garden of earthly delights | website=The Independent | date=11 May 2000 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-278675.html | access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>

Performances at the festival include:
*[[Handel]]'s ''[[Flavio]]'' (1994), by the (Irish) [[Opera Theatre Company]]<ref>{{cite news | title=Fine tuning | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] | date=21 March 2013 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/fine-tuning-1.30183 | access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[After the Ball (musical)|After the Ball]]'' (1999), at the Peacock Theatre, directed by [[Paul Curran (director)|Paul Curran]]<ref>{{cite web | title=After the Ball | website=Concord Theatricals | url=https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/p/2125/after-the-ball | access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>

===Cinemas===
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The Garden Cinema, which opened in March 2022, is located in Parker Street.<ref>{{cite web | title=About Us / The Garden Cinema | website=The Garden Cinema | date=22 January 2024 | url=https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/about-us/ | access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Garden Cinema in London, GB | website=Cinema Treasures | date=15 March 2022 | url=https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/66818 | access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref> The cinema is designed in Art Deco style, inside and out.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Garden Cinema | website=Independent Cinema Office | date=21 August 2023 | url=https://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/cinemas/the-garden-cinema/ | access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref> It was founded by retired legal publisher Michael Chambers, of [[Orbach and Chambers]], who bought the office building in 2010 and, after selling his business in 2018, had it converted by architects Burrell Foley Fischer. It was ready by 2020, but the [[COVID-19 pandemic in London|COVID-19 pandemic]] delayed its opening.<ref name=ft2023>{{cite web | title=Michael Chambers on founding London's Garden Cinema | website=[[Financial Times]]|first= Saskia |last= Baron | date= 22 July 2023 | url=https://www.ft.com/content/89564c02-1983-4957-b918-1d3d739a37c2 | access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref> The cinema partners with a number of film festivals and other organisations,<ref>{{cite web | title=Partners / The Garden Cinema | website=The Garden Cinema | date=11 January 2024 | url=https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/partners/ | access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref> as well as hosting Q&As, live music, and poetry recitals.<ref name=ft2023/>