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Theatres & Facilities
Shows rehearse and perform in three theatres equipped with advanced
lighting and sound equipment. The Performing Arts Center houses
fully equipped scene and costume shops, a small dance/rehearsal
studio, make-up and dressing rooms, a script library, a music library,
practice rooms equipped with pianos, recording facilities, an extensive
costume collection, and a computer lab. A large dance/rehearsal
studio is available to the theatre department in Acker Gymnasium.
Laxson
Auditorium
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Laxson Auditorium was completed in the early 1930s and it has
been renovated with state of the art lighting, sound, and
counterweight systems. The theatre is the main "Road
House" in the Chico area. The auditorium seats 1200 in
an American seating style with a large balcony. The traditional
elliptical proscenium arch is more than 25 feet high and 36 feet
wide. The stage is 30 feet deep with a medium sized orchestra
pit. The Theatre Arts Department produces its spring musical
in Laxson Auditorium. Many theatre students gain valuable
experience as stage hands for the many events which are produced
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Harlen
Adams Theatre |
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The Harlen Adams Theatre is the largest of the three performance
spaces in the Performing Arts Center. The continental auditorium
plan seats about 450. The stage is forty feet wide with ample
wing space and a spacious apron that can be raised and lowered
to create various stage levels or a large orchestra pit. The
Adams Theatre also boasts an advanced computer lighting board, excellent
sound recording and playback capabilities, a fully trapped
stage floor and a full fly house with newly renovated counterweight
system and rigging. The theatre stage has direct access to
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Larry
Wismer Theatre |
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The Wismer Theatre is our “Black Box” space.
It is equipped with flexible seating that can create full
or three-quarter arena stage configurations as well as thrust
and traverse configurations. The control booth is equipped
with an advanced computer lighting board and excellent sound
playback and recording capabilities. |
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Ruth
Rowland Taylor Recital Hall |
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Other Facilities |
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Acker 204 |
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Acker 204 is our larger dance/rehearsal studio, housed across the campus in the athletics building. (There's a smaller one — PAC 10 — in the basement of the Performing Arts Center.) The studio is a huge, open space, well fitted with ballet barres, a wall of mirrors, flexible seating arrangements and set/prop storage, which allow for classroom use as well as workshop productions. The space is where our dance technique, choreography, and dance production classes are taught as well as many of our acting classes. We also use this versatile space in the evenings for rehearsals of many of our productions, including Chico Dance Theatre and the big spring musical. |
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Scene
Shop |
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The Theatre Arts Department has a full scale scene shop with
painting and welding facilities and a large construction area
that is directly connected to the Harlen Adams Theatre. |
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Costume
Shop |
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The Theatre Arts Department's costume shop is fully equipped
with separate cutting, dying, washing/drying, ironing, sewing/serging,
and hand stitching areas. There are also separate fitting and
storage areas available. |
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Makeup,
dressing rooms |
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The lower level of the Performing Arts Center, in addition
to the small dance/rehearsal studio, contains ample storage
space for sets, props and lighting equipment plus a large
make-up studio and women’s and men’s dressing
rooms. |
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