Mabie Theatre, the largest venue serving the Department of Theatre Arts, was built in the early 1930s as a state-of-the-art Broadway house. In the early years, many plays premiered here before transferring to New York.
Since then, this traditional proscenium theatre has been regularly updated with new lighting, sound, and fly systems to showcase the more innovative mainstage productions. With continental seating, no orchestra pit, and substantial depth, it is at once spacious and intimate.
Theatre specifications
- 457-seat proscenium theatre (23’x40’ proscenium) with a full fly house with 48 line sets
- Computer-controlled lighting system with 312 ETC Sensor dimmers
- Control:
- ETC EOS TI 24K or GrandMA2
- (330) conventional ETC Source 4 Fixtures
- (60) ETC Lustr2 Fixtures
- (20) ETC ColorSource PAR
- (6) Robe T1 LED Profile
- (12) Robe DL75 LED Profile (Shared with Dance/Opera)
- (16) Robe Spider LED Wash (Shared with Dance/Opera
- (4) Vari-Lite VL3500Q Spot Fixtures
- (6) Color Kinetics ColorBlaze TRX
- (5) Chroma-Q ColorForce II 72
- Fully digital projection system (Disguise, Pixera, Pandoras Box, and Dataton Watchout)
- (2) EIKI 7000 lumen projectors
- (4) Panasonic 12,000 lumen projectors (Shared with Dance/Opera)
- 28’w x 16’h 30mm LED Wall
- Full inventory of soft goods:
- Black masking
- Scrims
- Cycs
- A full stage white, black, and grey rear projection screen
Sound inventory
- (1) Yamaha CL5 72 Channel Digital Console
- (1) Lab Gruppen C10:4 Amplifier 4 x 250w @ 8Ω
- (2) Lab Gruppen C88:4 Amplifier 4 x 1250w @ 8Ω
- (4) JBL SRX 715 dedicated main speaker arrays
- (1) EV SX300 dedicated center fill speaker
- (1) QSC KS118 Powered Subwoofer
- (2) JBL SRX 712 monitors
- (4) Galaxy Hotspots
- (2) JBL LSR 4326P Powered Booth Monitors
- (1) iMac with QLab 5 software
- (1) MOTU 828mk3 Hybrid Audio Interface
- (25) Sennheiser Series 300 and 100 wireless mics
- (5) discrete 1250w amp-speaker options in addition to house mains.