Sheffield exists to promote chamber music. It describes itself as the largest promoter of chamber music outside London. Sheffield has two large theatres, the Lyceum Theatre and the Crucible Theatre, which together with the smaller Studio Theatre make up the largest theatre complex outside London, located in Tudor Square. The Crucible Theatre is the home (since 1977) of the World Snooker Championships and hosts many well-known stage productions throughout the year. The Lyceum, which opened in 1897, serves as a venue for touring West End productions and operas by Opera North, as well as locally produced shows. Sheffield also has the
Norfolk Street, Strand in 1678. The Norfolk Street tube station was planned for the street in 1902, but never built. Norfolk Street and Howard Street were demolished in the 1970s in order to build Arundel Great Court which was itself sold for redevelopment in 2012. Amberley House, office of the Ecclesiastical Association, was at numbers 11 to 12 on the south-west corner with Norfolk Street. Hastings House at number 10 had literary connections, being home to the Women Writers' Club from 1894, and the place from which the early literary agent A. P. Watt (1834–1914) practised. The Middle Classes Defence Organization was also