Liverpool Live
A 1,700-seat concert hall, a producing theatre that rebuilt itself out of its own bricks, a studio room for work that has nowhere else to go, and a cinema the neighbourhood runs itself — the city's rooms where an audience turns up at a set time.
Three of these sit on or just off Hope Street, the half-mile between the two cathedrals that carries most of Liverpool's performing arts. Grouping them by discipline would separate the Philharmonic from the Everyman, which is not how anyone in the city thinks about that street.
4 venues
Liverpool Philharmonic
A 1930s hall on Hope Street with a resident orchestra and a programme that runs well past it — folk, jazz and touring songwriters in a room built for Mahler.
Explore venue →Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse
Two theatres under one company. The Everyman was demolished and rebuilt in 2014 using 25,000 of its own reclaimed bricks, which tells you what the building means to the people who use it.
Explore venue →Unity Theatre
A former synagogue on Hope Place, now the room where work too small or too odd for the main houses gets staged — the reason a city's theatre scene has a bottom rung to climb.
Explore venue →Plaza Community Cinema
The bridge item: film rather than live performance, and Waterloo rather than the city centre. A 1939 art deco cinema run by volunteers as a community charity — the only venue here whose survival depends on the neighbourhood turning up.
Explore venue →