Manchester, Liverpool, and the Peak District
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1. Bluecoat
City CentreThe city center's oldest building is now a creative hub encompassing contemporary visual arts, live art, literature, music, and dance, along with a café and bistro.
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2. HOME
University QuarterThis cutting-edge contemporary arts venue houses a main 450-seat theater, a studio theater space, a gallery, five cinema screens, and digital production and broadcast facilities, as well as a bar, a café, and a bookshop.
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3. Manchester International Festival
This biennial multi-arts festival has played a major role in Manchester's cultural development since it launched in 2007. With international artists such as Björk and Marina Abramović making appearances, it often premieres events that go on to tour nationally or globally. Events take place in some of the city's most popular performing arts spaces, as well as obscure locations such as disused buildings.
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4. Royal Exchange Theatre
City CentreHoused in the city's one-time cotton exchange, this innovative venue for classic and contemporary works includes a glass-and-metal structure cradling a theater-in-the-round, plus a studio space.
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5. Bridgewater Hall
St Peters SquareThis dramatically modern venue—which sits on 280 springs to reduce external noise—is home to Manchester's renowned Hallé Orchestra, as well as the BBC Philharmonic. It also hosts rock and pop concerts.
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6. Buxton Festival
This renowned event, held for two weeks during mid-July each year, includes opera, drama, and concerts.
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7. Everyman Theatre
City CentreThis vibrant theater in a prize-winning contemporary building focuses on British playwrights and experimental productions from around the world, as well as hosting a playwrights' workspace. There's also a café and a basement bistro. A nearby sister theater, the Playhouse, stages slightly more mainstream productions.
5–11 Hope St., Liverpool, Liverpool, L1 1EL, England0151-709–4776-both theaters -
8. FACT
City CentreThe Foundation for Art and Creative Technology offers up a unique mix of exhibitions, films, and participant-led art projects, plus a café.
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9. Liverpool Empire
City CentreThis theater presents musicals, live music acts, and occasionally dance and opera.
Lime St., Liverpool, Liverpool, L1 1JE, England0333-009–6690 -
10. Opera House
City CentreThis elegant historic venue hosts musicals as well as opera, classical ballet, concerts, and Christmas pantos.
3 Quay St., Manchester, Manchester, M3 3HP, England0333-009 5399 -
11. Palace Theatre
City CentreOne of the city's largest theaters presents mainly touring musicals and tribute acts.
97 Oxford St., Manchester, Manchester, M1 6FT, England0333-009–6690 -
12. Philharmonic Hall
City CentreThis large art deco concert hall and sometime cinema plays host to concerts by the resident Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as contemporary rock, pop, folk, roots, jazz, and blues performances.
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13. Royal Court Theatre
City CentreThis restored art deco venue is one of the city's most appealing sites for stand-up comedy, theater, and more. Visitors can also take a heritage tour of the building.
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14. Royal Northern College of Music
University QuarterThe College hosts classical and contemporary music concerts—everything from opera to jazz.
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15. The Kings Arms
SalfordLive music, plays, and comedy feature on the bill of this intimate, bohemian space above a traditional pub.
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