6 Best Performing Arts Venues in Liverpool, Manchester, Liverpool, and the Peak District

The 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.

Set in a prize-winning building, this vibrant theater 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.

The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology offers up a unique mix of exhibitions, films, and participant-led art projects, plus a café.

Musicals, live-music acts, and, occasionally, dance or opera productions are on the bill at this theater.

This large Art Deco concert hall and sometime cinema hosts concerts by the resident Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as contemporary rock, pop, folk, roots, jazz, and blues performances.

This restored Art Deco venue is one of the city's most appealing sites for stand-up comedy, theater, and more. You can also take a heritage tour of the building (tickets must be booked in advance).