Cost:
$15,703,740

Size:
76,700 sf

Completion:
1993

RCG designed the 76,700 sf Frostburg State University Performing Arts Center to contain the Departments of Theatre Arts, Music, and Communications.

The facility houses three theatres; the 473-seat Recital Hall, the 337-seat Drama Theatre and the 200 seat Studio Theatre. The building also contains faculty offices, seminar rooms, individual and group practice rooms, dance studios, a lighting studio, costume shop, and a full shop area for construction of sets.

FSU’s Theatre program offers tracks in acting, directing and production/design. The department stages a regular series of drama and musicals in either the main Drama Theatre or the Studio Theatre throughout the year. The Performing Arts Center is also home to western Maryland’s largest cultural event series presented in conjunction with the Allegany Arts Council. Drama, music, dance and comedy from around the world are performed on the Center’s three stages.

The curving transparent glass lobby facade reinforces the circulation path to the central campus Clock Tower. The facades facing the campus are slightly more traditional in composition, relating to the adjacent academic campus buildings. RCG choose overall exterior building materials of brick veneer, granite bases, and cast stone trim and copings to tie the varying masses together in a unified composition and relate to the immediate context of contemporary academic buildings.

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