Prior Performing Arts Center

The new performing arts center will provide a gateway to the Holy Cross campus — a visible space for the arts.

Location: Behind Healy Hall (currently parking spaces)
Design firm: Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Project commences: July 2019
Anticipated opening: 2022
Total cost: $107M

Features include:

• A 400-seat proscenium-style concert hall and theatre, serving as the College's principal venue for symphonic music, chamber music, jazz, Gamelan, as well as opera, musical theatre, and dance
• A 200-seat fully flexible experimental theatre space
• Support space including a scene shop, costume shop, recording studio, lighting and set design study, and multi-use spaces to encourage collaboration among the arts
• The Beehive, a flexible space with a cafe that will support creative collaboration among students from all academic disciplines, including:
  • A shared multimedia teaching space for electronic music and musical composition courses, sound recording, sound editing, and video and film editing
  • Collaborative workspaces, multipurpose rehearsal spaces, and gathering spaces with movable furniture
• The Cantor Art Gallery, which will be moved from its current location in O’Kane Hall, affording a variety of interdisciplinary exhibits and increased exhibition and storage space
• Several outdoor amenities, including a small amphitheater and gardens for meditation and outdoor creative work