Performance Spaces

The Paul McCartney Auditorium

The PMA is the largest of LIPA’s performance spaces and is a traditional proscenium arch theatre. It can seat an audience of around 350 people and has flexible seating arrangements and staging configurations.

Each year many public performances take place in the PMA and the GHWS (described below) giving Management students opportunities to use these shows to test out their skills in producing and artist promotion. Outside of performance, the PMA is also used for presentations to the whole student body.

George Harrison Workshop Studio

Seating over 100 people, the GHWS is a fully equipped experimental performance space that offers creatives and performers a ‘blank canvas’ for productions. As well as immersive and promenade performances, it can also host more traditional theatrical productions with a variety of stage and audience configurations. It is also used as an exhibition, rehearsal and teaching space.

The Sennheiser TV Studio

The Sennheiser TV Studio is a fully realised TV and broadcast studio. The studio, along with motion capture and editing, green screen for compositing and visual effects work and sound and grading suites.

LIPA Bar and Canteen

As well as serving food and drink, the bar and canteen are the hub of social activity within LIPA with both spaces licensed for performances.

The canteen is the venue for LIPA’s weekly gig night, The 2ube. Most Fridays the 2ube features live performances, showcasing musicians from LIPA and Liverpool’s music scene. The event is a collaboration between Management, Music, Sound Technology and Theatre & Performance Technology students.

The canteen also hosts open mic and jukebox shuffle nights, and independent student organised performances and benefit nights. The bar hosts regular quiz nights and Student Event Board parties.

The bar is open Monday, Thursday and Friday from 3pm - 11pm, and Tuesday and Wednesday from 3pm - 10pm, with extended hours for special events.