Facilities

Students in all fields of theatrical study are encouraged to get involved with the many productions staged in the Studio Theatre and the University Theatre. These venues offer a wide range of exciting participation possibilities and extracurricular opportunities. Although participation is not required, it is highly recommended that students get involved with these productions.

University Theatre
The 317-seat University Theatre is a thrust theatre similar to the famous Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. The design creates the intimacy between actor and audience with its three-quarter-round arrangement of stadium seating.

Studio Theatre
The Studio is a flexible, experimental space that features works directed and designed, produced and performed by our faculty and talented theatre students.

University Center for the Arts
These theatres, which opened in 2005, are located in the new, multi-million dollar University Center for the Arts, a state-of-the-art facility that will be completed in Fall 2008/Spring 2009. When complete, the UCA will bring performing and visual artists together in one place and provide them with the spaces, facilities, and tools they need to learn, teach, create, collaborate, display, perform, and excel. The UCA will improve opportunities for integrated and interdisciplinary learning by housing the academic units of Music, Theatre, and Dance in the same home for the first time in university history. In addition, the UCA will provide a visual arts gallery and museum to accommodate modest-sized traveling exhibitions and storage and exhibition space for at least a portion of the university’s permanent collection (about 1,700 individual pieces).