{"id":1848,"date":"2022-06-16T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=venues-facilities&p=1848"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:01:36","slug":"joan-edgar-booth-theatre","status":"publish","type":"venues-facilities","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/venues-facilities\/joan-edgar-booth-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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Flexibility Yields Experimentation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Listed among the best new architectural structures around the globe (Wallpaper<\/em> magazine<\/a>, 2019), the Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre provides CFA theatre students with countless opportunities to experiment, innovate, and take the audience from 820 Commonwealth Avenue to another world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To Hold As ‘Twere The Mirror Up to Nature”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The building\u2019s massive tipped fa\u00e7ade serves as a mirror, coupled with a proscenium-inspired truss system, placing the world of Commonwealth Avenue on stage. When coming to see a show at Booth, we invite you to step into the space where, through the configuration of seating risers, the opening of trap doors, the installation of set pieces and drapes, and the use of creative lighting, we transform the theatre and redefine the audience’s relationship with the story onstage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only do performances take place here, the BU College of Fine Arts Production Center<\/a> is onsite. Classes are taught in state-of-the-art facilities by professors who are experts in the field. Students are sketching and bringing their costume designs to life in the Costume Shop. Others are building and painting sets and props in the Paint Shop and Scene Shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best part about Booth Theatre? No production looks the same, making each performance a unique experience for the cast and crew, and the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Booth Theatre has provided me with a playground. Pretty much anything you imagine possible can be done in that theatre.”<\/div>