DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
Entering through the main north doors of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC)one might stop and wonder, "Where do I go now?" It is a fair question. This 150,000-square-foot building has 177 rooms and 384 doors! The left side of the main lobby presents a grand stairway to the second floor, the office of the executive director, the Regis Philbin Studio Theater, the Patricia George Decio Mainstage Theater, and finally the lobby of the Chris and Anne Reyes Organ and Choral Hall. On the right are the ticket office, coat check, concessions, and the Judd and Mary Lou Leighton Concert Hall. On the second floor one finds entrances to the Michael Browning Family Cinema, the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, and the balconies of both the Mainstage Theatre and the Concert Hall.
The University's goals for the performing arts are as bold as the building itself. The DeBartolo Center for the Peforming Arts was carefully designed for both public performance and for teaching and learning. Sprawling across the entire lower level are classrooms, editing studios, a rehearsal hall, a costume shop, a makeup studio, a recording studio, a lighting lab, a creative computing lab, dressing rooms, and a student lounge. The benefit for Nore Dame's students and faculty has been dramatic and immediate. Each of the spaces allows our academic departments to teach and present the arts in ways that were simply not possible in the past.
Learn more about the DPAC > http://performingarts.nd.edu