Boston University's New Building Offers Promising Future for Performing Arts Studies

	The Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre at Boston University

Located in the heart of Boston University's Charles River campus, the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre and College of Fine Arts Production Center integrates the School of Theatre's design and production facilities with the campus community at a location diagonally across from the theatre and opera performance teaching facilities. The building represents a radical improvement to the School of Theatre's facilities and fulfills two goals: a more unified department and increased opportunities for cross-discipline collaboration. Beginning in 2011, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided pre-design programming and, in late 2016 as part of the Elkus Manfredi Architects-led team, provided theatre and audio-video consulting for the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre, scene shops, costume shops, offices, studios, and classrooms. Auerbach Glasow collaborated with the design team to seamlessly integrate the building's lighting design with the architectural vision. The lighting is a combination of meticulously detailed public-facing areas like the lobby and theatre and highly functional/practical solutions for the classrooms, offices and studios.