Features include a 490-seat theater with balcony and galleries, a large lobby/student lounge with 35-person conference room, a connecting corridor to the Callan Lobby to serve as an art gallery and display area, a large second floor rehearsal room and an improved scene shop. The project also improves accessibility for the adjacent Dining Common by providing a new lift.
Project Details
Study/Project Designer: Leers Weinzapfel
Project Type: CM at risk
Construction Manager: Daniel O'Connell's Sons
Project Cost: $26,256,203
Gross Square Feet: 33,072
Estimated Construction Completion Date: Fall 2016
Project Features:
In addition to the theater / audience chamber, the following theatrical teaching and support spaces are included in the program:
- Control Room: theater control booth for lighting, sound and stage management;
- Crossover Corridor: space that allows actors and staff to cross from one side of the stage to the other without being seen by the audience;
- Green Room/ Student Production Office: space for staging actors before, during, and after performances, meeting space for cast
- Gel Room: space for the production and storage of lighting gels
- Light Lab: teaching space for the study of lighting design.
- Sound Computer Lab: computer lab for sound editing and live recording.
- LEED Gold
- Boston Society of Architects Accessible Design Award, 2019