Completed in the spring of 2025, the Centennial Arts Center supports the performing arts and provides bonus academic spaces.
This flexible and functional space offers 175 retractable seats to accommodate mainstage productions, directors’ workshops, CA’s Playwriting Festival, technical theater classes, dance performances, CA’s Music Café, film screenings, class meetings, and courses across disciplines. Seating capacity is intentionally reduced to optimize audience engagement and provide students additional opportunities to perform their work. Unfettered by a traditional stage and fixed seats, directors and creators are able to stretch their imaginations. In addition, classes in every area of study across the school have the ability to configure this space for their needs.
A light-filled room with 75 fixed seats, this hall provides appropriate acoustics and open floor space to accommodate chamber music, chorus, jazz workshops and ensembles, masterclass-style opportunities, practice, performance, group meetings, courses across disciplines, and events.
An open space with a reconfigurable layout to serve multiple programmatic needs, P3 supports the integration of performing and visual arts, creates gallery/display capacity, and powers the school to meet 21st-century technology demands. This is a multifunctional classroom that can also be used as a gathering and meeting space.
Adjacent to the P3 Lab, the DPL provides a functional recording studio, communications technology to support media production across all disciplines, and tools for classes across departments (e.g., languages, visual arts, film, photography, digital graphic design, computer science, podcasting, student portfolios, video production).
This much-needed space enables musicians to practice in groups. It also includes a practical classroom space to support “on your feet” dynamic learning.
In this dedicated maker space, students participate in set construction. We offer highly desired courses like woodworking and additional opportunities for fiber arts. This shop also allows the P.A.C. to remain open while sets are designed and built.
These 13 soundproof rooms, designed to accommodate various uses, create the conditions for students and teachers to study and work undisturbed. Technology connects to the Digital Production Lab, creating recording capacity currently unavailable to our program.
For the first time in 100 years, CA has suitable dressing rooms, costume and instrument storage, and bathrooms for performers—transforming the CA experience.
Providing dedicated room for adults to work and advise enhances the Centennial Arts Center a destination for collaboration and community building.
