(oil on canvas, 1949) Industrial Landscape (oil on canvas, 1953) Portrait of Ann (oil on board, 1957) A Head of a Man with Red Eyes (oil on board, 1938) The Artworks Creativity Gallery, designed and implemented by architects Reich-Petch (responsible for developing the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.), uses multimedia to encourage visitor participation and interaction with exhibits to transform gallery space. Between October 2011 and January 2012 the gallery hosted an exhibition of about 100 works by Lowry's teacher, Pierre Adolphe Valette, including paintings of Manchester from Manchester Art Gallery and loans from private owners. An Archive Room houses material related to the artist including books, catalogues of his exhibitions and auctions, press cuttings, tapes of interviews with Lowry and others, photographs and ephemera. The archive is open by appointment. Theatre At the core of the complex are two theatres and a drama studio. The Lyric Theatre has 1,730 seats while the Quays has 466. The theatres host touring plays, comedy and musical events and Opera North. The Lyric Theatre has the largest stage in the United Kingdom outside London's West End. It played host to the 2011 Royal Variety Performance. The Daughter-in-Law by D. H. Lawrence, a play in Nottingham dialect, neither published nor performed in Lawrence's lifetime was revived at the Lyric Theatre in 2012. The Lowry was the venue for the grand final of the BBC quiz show Mastermind in 2003. The Lyric Theatre has also housed the first and only televised recording of the radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which Humphrey Lyttelton chaired just 19 days before his death in April 2008. An edited version aired on BBC Four, and the full edition is available on DVD. It also hosts auditions for Britain's Got Talent Week 53 Festival The Lowry hosts the bi-annual Week 53 Festival, its flagship Arts festival with a multi-disciplinary programme across music, dance, theatre and performance. References Notes External links Online exhibition of the Lowry art collection: Buildings and structures in Salford Art museums and galleries in Greater Manchester Arts centres in England Theatres in Greater Manchester Michael Wilford buildings Buildings and structures celebrating the third millennium Buildings and structures completed in 1999 High-tech architecture Event venues established in 2000 Theatres completed in 2000 L. S. Lowry 1999 establishments in England Salford Quays