Venues & Other Creative Facilities

Located in O'Kane Hall, Studio 481 hosts a variety of classes and serves as a rehearsal venue for Theatre & Dance productions.

With sweeping views of Worcester, this Prior studio serves dance and music classes, rehearsals, performances and special events. The space is often paired with its siblings the Mullman Terrace and Joyce Lounge in support of social and networking gatherings.

The so-called "Beehive" and its honeycomb nature, is a three-story architectural atrium craddling spaces for gathering, studying, dreaming, and rejuvination through its O'Connor Family Cafe. On occassion, the space is transformed into a unique venue of its own. The Booth Media Lab and Boroughs Theatre are able to open directly to the atrium via movable walls.

Classes taught in this Prior Performing Arts Center space include Designing for Virtual Reality, Digital Studio Art, Audio Engineering, Laptop Ensembles and more. The accordion wall of the space can be opened to speak to the Beehive Atrium.

Contains 12 digital audio workstations (DAWs) furnished with an array of professional and cutting-edge software (Pro Tools, Logic, Max/MSP, Audacity, Arduino, Csound, Photoshop Elements) for audio and video editing, arranging, mixing and mastering.

Providing students with a sound isolation booth, professional software and hardware, both analog and digital, and a wide selection of microphones designed for audio recording, engineering and mastering.

Costumes for productions are designed, built, altered, laundered, and stored in the Prior Performing Arts Center Costume Shop. The space also serves as a lab for theatre students studying the specifics of the costume and wardrobe craft.

Located in O’Kane Hall 28, the dance studio is a host to a range of dance classes. The space is fitted with a Marley-covered, dance-dedicated sprung floor.

Holding more than 25,000 sound recordings; 10,000 books; 11,000 music scores; and 1,000 videos, the library also has six music workstations with commercial audio streaming services for unlimited, on-demand access to every genre of music.

The Brooks Music Center features eight practice rooms equipped with grand and upright Yamaha and Steinway pianos.

The Foley Scene Shop, located on the first floor of the Prior Performing Arts Center, provides the space, tools, and expertise to provide professional scenic services. The space also serves as a lab for theatre students studying the specifics of this craft.

Aside from serving as the sound-isolated, acoustically controlled main live room for the recording studio suite, the Lovelette Ensemble Room also serves as an architecturally-inspiring space for rehearsals.

Consisting of two buildings totaling approximately 12,000 square feet, it houses both shared and private studio spaces for painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and drawing. In addition to several areas where student artwork is displayed, Millard also includes the state-of-the-art Millard Media Lab, which is designed to foster and support creative work in digital imaging; an Equipment Library, where the students can access and loan art equipment; a darkroom; and facilities for welding, woodwork and ceramics.

Located in O'Kane Hall, this studio theatre is used for acting, design and directing classes. Additionally, it houses occassional guest artist activities and is home to the Alternative College Theatre group.

The Prior Performing Arts Center houses three practice rooms equipped with upright pianos. It also houses one practice room dedicated to the instruction and study of percussion.

The Prior Recording Studio can record sound from anywhere in the building. Students work alongside professional sound engineers to record, mix, and master student performances and collaborate on special projects with guest artists. The adjacent Lovelette Ensemble Room and Soloist Room round out the recording suite and are wired to provide live rooms/capture spaces.