[THEATER]

Harvard Theater Spaces

  1. Adams House Kronauer Space
  2. Adams House Pool Theater
  3. Agassiz Theater
  4. Cabot House Underground Theater
  5. Cabor House JCR
  6. Currier House Fishbowl
  7. Dudley House Lehman Hall
  8. Dunster House Dining Hall
  9. Eliot House Library
  10. Hasty Pudding
  11. Kirkland House JCR
  12. Kirkland House F-Entry
  13. Leverett House Old Library
  14. Loeb Experimental Theater
  15. Loeb Mainstage
  16. Lowell House Dining Hall
  17. Lowell Lecture Hall
  18. Mather House Dining Hall
  19. Mather House TV Room
  20. Pforzheimer House Dining Hall
  21. Pforzheimer House TV Studio
  22. Quincy House Cage
  23. Quincy House Dining Hall
  24. Rieman Dance Center
  25. Sanders Theater
  26. Sunken Garden
  27. Tercentenary Theater
  28. Winthrop House JCR

Adams House Kronauer Space

10 Plympton Street
Cambridge, MA 01238
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2259
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  • Description: The Adams Kronaur space is really just a basement room that happens to have black walls and some electrical outlets. Productions here tend to be very intimate, with small audiences. Great for experimental, bizarre work.
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Adams House Pool Theater

13 Bow Street
Cambridge, MA 01238
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2259
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Agassiz Theater

14 Mason Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-8675
Box Office: STBO (617)496-2222
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  • Description: The Agassiz is a full-fledged theater with full-time staff and constant activity. The rounded balconies and stage give it an musical-theater feel, and indeed the Gilbert and Sullivan Players perform here exclusively.
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Cabot House Underground Theater

100 Walker Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-8740
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Cabot House JCR

100 Walker Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-8740
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Currier House Fishbowl

64 Linnaean Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-8100
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Dudley House Lehman Hall

Lehman Hall, Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2255
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Dunster House Dining Hall

945 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2262
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  • Description: The Dunster Dining Hall is used primarily for the annual Dunster House Opera. Using the space requires infringing upon normal dining hall operations, and consequently is limited.
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Eliot House Library

101 Dunster Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2275
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Hasty Pudding

Holyoke Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Kirkland House JCR

95 Dunster Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2272
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Kirkland House F-Entry

95 Dunster Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2272
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Leverett House Old Library

28 DeWolfe Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2278, jmorrill@fas.harvard.edu
Box Office: STBO (617)496-2222
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  • Description: The Leverett Old Library is a flexible theater space, primarily used for experimental or student-written plays and small musicals. It is maintained by the Leverett House Arts Society, and currently has a troupe in residence that shares the space with student work. LHAS maintains a small inventory of set pieces, props, and lighting equipment.
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Loeb Experimental Theater

64 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2668
Box Office: (617)547-8300
  • Seats: varies, about 80
  • Overall dimensions: 38'6" by 51'0"
  • Playing area dimensions: varies dep. on audience, total floor is 34' by 42'
  • Description: Constantly active, the Loeb Ex is designed to be a flexible, intimate space. Although the original hydraulic, multi-sectioned floor was scrapped, the existing facilities provide ample ways to put up a production. The space is run by the HRDC, which shares it during the offseason with the ART. During the summer, HRST puts up several productions as well.
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Loeb Mainstage

64 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2668
Box Office: (617)547-8300, regular student shows are free
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  • Description: The Loeb Mainstage is the ART's primary performance space, but for several weeks each season, it becomes a student space. As the space with the most advanced theater technology on campus, it's arguably the most interesting to work in technically.
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Lowell House Dining Hall

10 Holyoke Place
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2283
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Lowell Lecture Hall

17 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)496-4595
Box Office: STBO (617)496-2222
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  • Description: Maintained as part of the Memorial Hall complex, Lowell Lec is primarily a lecture hall but is occasionally used as a performance space, particularly for music and dance.
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Mather House Dining Hall

45 Flagg Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-4834
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Mather House TV Room

45 Flagg Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Pforzheimer House Dining Hall

56 Linnaean Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-8166
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Pforzheimer House TV Studio

56 Linnaean Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-8166
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Quincy House Cage

58 Plympton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2285
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Quincy House Dining Hall

58 Plympton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)495-2285
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Rieman Dance Center

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  • Description: The Radcliffe Dance Studio is the performance space for the Radcliffe Dance Program.
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Sunken Garden

Sunken Garden
Radcliffe Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: John Horst (617)496-3132
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Sanders Theater

Memorial Hall
45 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: (617)496-4595
Box Office: STBO (617)496-2222
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  • Description: Sanders theater is typically used only as a lecture hall during the school year, but in 1998 a student production of Hamlet did in fact go up. When school is out, occasional outside groups such as the Christmas Revels perform in the space.
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Tercentenary Theater

Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
Administrative Contact: Dean of Students Office, University Hall 4
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  • Description: Some student groups use the outdoor spaces of Harvard Yard and the Tercentenary Theater (between Memorial Church and Widener) as a playing space. Most often, a "stage" is set up on the steps of Mem Church facing Widener, although other locations and even mobile shows have been used.
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Winthrop House JCR

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  • Description: The Winthrop JCR is a very simple room to work in, as it is basically just a room. With a little ingenuity, however, it can become a decent performance space with an intimate feel.
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