The Bicknell Family Center for the Arts in VR

The setting sun illuminates the Bicknell Family Center for the Arts located on the campus of Pittsburg State University. This clean-lined new facility provides first class performing venues for the university’s theater, music, and dance programs, while also giving the town of Pittsburg a performing arts venue suitable for touring artists.

The heart of the building is an 1,100-seat lyric theater with flytower, orchestra pit, and orchestra shell, able to present Broadway musicals, orchestra, chorus, opera, ballet, jazz, and popular music.  A 250-seat drama theater is the primary performance space for the drama department.

Team

• William Rawn Associates, Design Architect; Boston, MA
• ACI / Boland, Project Architect; Leawood, KS
• Theatre Projects Consultants, Theatre Consultant; Norwalk, CT
• Kirkegaard Associates, Acoustics and Audio-Video Systems Design; Chicago, IL