35 East Lancaster Avenue
PA Eats described the new room as a BYOB space with live entertainment across genres. Philly Mag later listed the same address in its Best of Philly award.
Venue dossier
One room, several chapters, one archive.
The Living Room at 35 East opened in Ardmore in 2018 as an intimate BYOB venue. The project later moved to Cricket Avenue as The Living Room & Cricket Cafe and closed in April 2024.
ARDMORE2018—2024venue archive
Best of Philly
Philadelphia magazine named The Living Room at 35 East its 2019 Best Small Music Venue.
A new Cricket Avenue chapter
After the pandemic interruption, The Villanovan reported the reopening in a new purpose-built space alongside Cricket Cafe.
Closing and archive
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the venue and cafe would close in April 2024.
What the venue history adds to today’s theme
The Living Room was defined by scale and attention rather than spectacle: a close stage, a local audience and evenings organized around one live focal point. That history gives the site a credible starting point for talking about concert rooms, sports-bar viewing and fan events without pretending the former venue is still operating.
Continue with concerts & live events for the stage side of the idea, or match viewings for the sports-bar side. The historical record remains available in the venue archive.
35 East as one venue: stage, screen and the memory of past nights
The story of The Living Room at 35 East is easiest to follow through specific events. Past Nights organizes the record by date, artist profiles organize it by performer, and the room pages add the physical context of the venue. Those routes meet on event pages and preserve the identity of one place rather than a collection of unrelated topics.
Alongside live music, the 35 East story also makes room for sports broadcasts and fan events as a shared-room format. They live in the Match Room while the central theme remains a concert venue and sports bar: choose the night, understand the room, check entry and then plan the visit.