 The city 's main theatres are the Theatre Royal ( 1 @,@ 315 capacity ) , its Drum Theatre ( 200 capacity ) , and its production and creative learning centre , The <unk> . The Plymouth Pavilions has multiple uses for the city staging music concerts , basketball matches and stand @-@ up comedy . There are also three cinemas : Reel Cinema at <unk> Cross , Plymouth Arts Centre at Looe Street and a Vue cinema at the Barbican Leisure Park . The Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery is operated by Plymouth City Council allowing free admission – it has six galleries . The Plymouth Athenaeum , which includes a local interest library , is a society dedicated to the promotion of learning in the fields of science , technology , literature and art . From 1961 to 2009 it also housed a theatre . 
