Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre (WAC) 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 contemporary and classical music, drama, dance, comedy, films and visual art. 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 comprises six spaces on the same site, including a concert hall, two theatres, a cinema, art gallery (Mead Gallery), and conference room as well as hospitality
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts undertaken, along with audience seating, flooring upgrades, new washrooms and reconfigured lobby spaces. Following two years of renovations and restoration work, the Sony Centre reopened its doors on 1 October 2010, fifty years to the date of the first opening night performance. The Centre was built on land formerly occupied by a series of commercial buildings, including the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Company, and previously it was the site of the Great Western Railway Terminal (later the Toronto Wholesale Fruit Market). The idea for a performing arts centre that could serve the needs of an increasingly dynamic city predates the building's