Live-music venues worth the trip in Lawrence, Kansas

The University of Kansas performing arts center, which books touring names alongside Broadway tours in a main auditorium with a 122-foot-wide stage.

A Beaux-Arts opera house rebuilt after a 1911 fire on the corner where Kansas’s first abolitionist newspaper burned in 1856, now a 1,050-capacity general-admission hall with a 397-seat balcony, doubling as the town’s independent cinema.

A Lawrence hall with a ticketed calendar of all-ages and 18-plus shows, that sells a general-admission floor pit and standing room, with four-top table seats offered alongside on some nights.

A rock and roll pinball bar in Lawrence, strictly 21-plus after 9 pm, with a small indoor stage, a patio stage for warm-weather matinee shows, and Replay Records, an independent label it runs, releasing local and regional 7-inch records.

A general-admission rock club in Lawrence with a ticketed calendar of touring bands that mixes all-ages shows and 18-plus nights.