Bath has a rich cultural life and a wide variety of venues for drama, music, dance and performance. The
Assembly Rooms, the
Pump Room and the
Guildhall (tel: (01225) 477 782; website:
www.bathvenues.co.uk/) host many concerts each year, including numerous recitals as part of the annual Bath International Festival in May and Bath Mozartfest in November. The Assembly Rooms can seat one of the largest audiences in Bath and the acoustics in the Guildhall are amongst the best in Europe, especially for recitals
and chamber music.
The
Bath Pavilion (tel: (01225) 486 902/76) and
The Forum (tel: (01225) 443 114; website:
www.bath.co.uk/theforum), a beautiful art deco auditorium with a capacity of 1,700, are also used for concerts. There are also frequent musical events in
Bath Abbey (tel: (01225) 422 462; website:
www.bathabbey.org/).
Bath Festivals Box Office, 2 Church Street
(tel: (01225) 463 362; website:
www.bathfestivals.org.uk/), is a good place to get tickets for many cultural events. A comprehensive listings of events can be found online at www.visitbath.co.uk
For live popular music
Moles Club (tel: (01225) 404 445; website:
www.moles.co.uk) is very good, with a great bar and restaurant serving vegetarian food at very reasonable prices.
The Theater Royal (tel: (01225) 448 844; website:
www.theaterroyal.org.uk), Sawclose, is the main theater in Bath and among the oldest working theaters in England. It includes the Ustinov Studio, with a program of innovative, cutting-edge drama, dance and music, and
The Egg, a theater for children and young people. The
Rondo Theater (tel: (01225) 463 362; website:
www.rondotheater.co.uk), St Saviour’s Road, Larkhall, is a highly regarded small theater attracting a great number of artists in drama, music and performance every year. Also the
Arts Center at the university campus has frequent shows in music, theater, dance or performance, most of them staged by the
Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts (tel: (01225) 386 777; website:
www.bath.ac.uk/icia).
The Little Theater Cinema (tel: 08707 551 241; website:
www.picturehouses.co.uk), St Michael’s Place, shows art films and foreign films and has retained the charm of a 1930s cinema, including a balcony in the main auditorium.
The Odeon (tel: 0871 224 4007; website:
www.odeon.co.uk), James Street West, has eight screens and mainly shows mainstream film.
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