Warwick Arts Centre

Warwick Arts Centre
Warwick Arts Centre, Main Entrance
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AddressUniversity of Warwick
Coventry
England
Coordinates52°22′47″N 1°33′42″W / 52.3798°N 1.5617°W / 52.3798; -1.5617
OwnerUniversity of Warwick
CapacityButterworth Hall: 1,340
Theatre: 547
Studio: 150
Helen Martin Studio: 143
Woods-Scawen Room: 250
National Grid Room: 50
Creative learning Space: 30
Screens
Cinema 1: 210
Cinema 2: 137
Cinema 3: 53
Typeperforming arts centre
Construction
Opened1974 (1974)
ArchitectRenton, Howard, Wood Associates
Website
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk

Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. It attracts around 300,000 visitors a year to over 3,000 individual events embracing all types of theatre and performance, contemporary and classical music, dance, comedy, visual art, films, talks and family events. Warwick Arts Centre is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, and the largest venue of its kind in the UK outside the Barbican Centre in London.

Warwick Arts Centre consists of numerous spaces on the same site, including a large 1,500 capacity concert hall, theatre, three cinemas, art gallery (Mead Gallery), Helen Martin Studio and conference room, as well as learning space, hospitality suites, a café and bars.

The centre houses the University of Warwick Music Centre with practice rooms, and an ensemble rehearsal room where music societies and groups rehearse.