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The culture of Plymouth is a social aspect of the unitary authority and city of Plymouth that is located in the south-west of England. Built in 1815, Union Street was at the heart of Plymouth's historical culture. It became known as ''the servicemens playground'', as it was where sailors from the Royal Navy would seek entertainment.〔 During the 1930s, there were 30 pubs and it attracted such performers as Charlie Chaplin to the New Palace Theatre.〔 It is now the late-night hub of Plymouth's entertainment strip, but has a reputation for trouble at closing hours. Outdoor events and festivals are held including the annual British Firework Championships in August, which attracts tens of thousands of people across the waterfront.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The British Firework Championships Plymouth ) 〕 In August 2006 the world record for the most amount of simultaneous fireworks was surpassed, by Roy Lowry of the University of Plymouth, over Plymouth Sound. Since 1992 the Music of the Night has been performed in the Royal Citadel by the 29 Commando Regiment and local performers to raise money for local and military charities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Music Of The Night )〕 The city's main theatres are the Theatre Royal (1,315 capacity),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Theatre Royal )〕 its Drum Theatre (200 capacity),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Drum Theatre )〕 and its newly built production and creative learning centre, The TR2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TR2 )〕 The Plymouth Pavilions has multi uses for the city staging music concerts, basketball matches and stand-up comedy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us )〕 There are also three cinemas. The Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is operated by Plymouth City Council allowing free admission — it has six galleries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery )〕 Plymouth is the sub-regional television centre of BBC South West.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spotlight (address footnote) )〕 Plymouth is the regional television centre of BBC South West.〔 A team of journalists are headquartered at Plymouth for the ITV West Country regional station, after a merger with ITV West forced ITV Westcountry to close on 16 February 2009. The main local newspapers serving Plymouth are The Herald and Western Morning News with BBC Radio Devon and Plymouth Sound being the main local radio stations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Creative Sector )〕 == Theatres and cinemas == The Theatre Royal is a provincial producing theatre and incorporates a studio theatre (The Drum). Its production and education centre, TR2, is in an award-winning building at Cattedown.〔(TR2 is Britain's "Building of the Year", BBC website. ) Retrieved 2007-10-13.〕 The Barbican Theatre is in a converted Mission.(). The university has two well-equipped theatres within the Roland Levinsky Building. Amateurs perform at the Devonport Playhouse and the Globe Theatre (within Stonehouse barracks). The Plymouth Pavilions stages music concerts from rock and pop to ballet, as well as hosting basketball, wrestling and line dancing. There is a small cinema at Derry's Cross. In Looe Street, Plymouth Arts Centre has a single screen cinema specialising in art house and foreign films. The Levinsky arts building at the university has a film centre and there is a Vue cinema at the Barbican Leisure Park. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Culture of Plymouth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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