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Rutgers Venues

From the modern Nicholas Music Center to the Stedman Gallery to cozy Bradley Hall, Rutgers campuses in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden boast a variety of places where imagination, exploration, thoughtfulness, and hard work blossom into art, music, dance, and drama that engage, involve, and inspire.

Explore the places where the Rutgers community creates and catches magic.

New Brunswick

Bettenbender Plaza
85 George Street
Douglass Campus
Bettenbender Plaza was dedicated in the spring of 2002 to honor the founding dean of Mason Gross School of the Arts, John Bettenbender. It is a gathering spot for students between classes, the place for impromptu performances, and a summer setting for evening events.

Cabaret Theatre
7 Suydam Street
Douglass Campus
This is an intimate, nonprofit, student-run theater.

Civic Square Building
33 Livingston Avenue
Downtown New Brunswick

The Civic Square Building is the primary location for the visual arts department. Students have access to large, fully equipped studios for painting, design, drawing, computer art, and performance art, including production studios for film and video and darkrooms for photography.

Corwin Lodge
158 Nichol Avenue
Douglass Campus

This building is a satellite location for the Department of Dance, located minutes from the main studio spaces.

Douglass Library
8 Chapel Drive
Douglass Campus
The library offers exhibition space for student and faculty works, as well as invitational exhibitions. The Blanche and Irving Laurie Music Library and the Media Center are also located here.

Jameson Theater
30 Jones Avenue
Douglass Campus
The Jameson Theater is a smaller proscenium theater seating 75.

Kirkpatrick Chapel
81 Somerset Street
College Avenue Campus
Built in 1873, Kirkpatrick Chapel has served as the home for weddings, concerts, baptisms, memorials, lectures, classes, and other programs for its entire 139-year history. The chapel is open to the public for religious events of all faiths, and serves as a major venue for the Department of Music as well as for other public and private functions.

Little Theater
112 Nichol Avenue
Douglass Campus

A satellite building for the Department of Theater Arts, the Little Theater is the primary rehearsal space for mainstage plays.

Loree Dance Theater
72 Lipman Drive
Douglass Campus
This building is a satellite space for the dance and theater arts departments. It is a classroom space during the day for theater and a performance space for dance at night. It contains a small, fully equipped studio theater with a sprung dance floor.

Marryott Music Building
81 George Street
Douglass Campus

This building houses the music department offices, classrooms, and a concert hall. The music building was designed specifically for music instruction. Massive masonry walls and doors minimize sound leakage. Its name honors Stephanie Morris Marryott, who taught here in the 1930s, in recognition of her generous support.
 

McKinney Hall
125 Hamilton Street
College Avenue Campus

Built in 1915, the historic McKinney Hall serves not only the Rutgers student body and specifically the Rutgers Glee Club.

MSGA Visual Arts Building
39 Road 3
Livingston Campus

This building houses the Mason Gross School of the Arts Department of Visual Arts’ sculpture and ceramic facilities including workshop, studio, and exhibition space, as well as outdoor workspace to serve the special needs of the three-dimensional arts. There is also a kiln.

Nicholas Dance Studios
85 George Street
Douglass Campus
This building is the main hub for the Department of Dance.

Nicholas Music Center
85 George Street
Douglass Campus

The Nicholas Music Center houses a beautiful 740-seat concert hall and technical areas. A Bayreuth-style orchestra pit extending under the stage supports opera productions.

Philip J. Levin Theater
85 George Street
Douglass Campus

Theater arts performances take place in the 325-seat Philip J. Levin Theater, which is set in a three-quarter thrust configuration.

Rehearsal Hall
85 George Street
Douglass Campus
This is a satellite building for the Department of Music. Performances take place in Room 104, and the building also houses faculty offices and student practice studios.

Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center
72 Lipman Drive, 018 Loree Hall
Douglass Campus
Founded in 1982, the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center draws thousands of viewers from throughout New Jersey by providing an alternative media culture.

Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater
85 George Street
Douglass Campus
The 340-seat Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater houses a state-of-the-art proscenium stage used for theater and dance.

Voorhees Chapel
5 Chapel Drive
Douglass Campus
This Georgian Colonial Chapel in the Christopher Wren tradition, founded in 1925, is one of the most distinctive buildings on campus. It was made possible by a gracious gift from Elizabeth Rodman Voorhees. Its stately white spire catches the eye from anywhere on campus. It is the site of college ceremonies, student assemblies, weddings and religious services, musical concerts, and other programs by artists, scholars, and speakers.

Walters Hall
2 Chapel Drive
Douglass Campus

Walters Hall houses the theater department’s main offices, rehearsal spaces, well-lit drawing rooms, classrooms, workshops, computer labs, offices, a conference room, and a lounge.

Zimmerli Art Museum
71 Hamilton Street
College Avenue Campus

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum houses Rutgers University’s collection of more than 50,000 works of art. The museum hosts special events including performances, workshops, and lectures.

Newark

Bradley Hall
110 Warren Street
Rutgers–Newark

The intimate Bradley Hall theater seats 135. The building also contains classrooms for the visual arts.

The Dana Room
4th floor, John Cotton Dana Library
185 University Avenue
Rutgers–Newark

This versatile space serves as an in-house theater for musical performances throughout the year. The library also hosts major art exhibitions.

Paul Robeson Galleries
Robeson Campus Center
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard
Rutgers–Newark

The Paul Robeson Galleries are an artistic and cultural center dedicated to presenting art and cultural artifacts as well as educational and public programming in the spirit of the diverse metropolitan context of Rutgers–Newark, the Greater Newark communities, and the northeast region of New Jersey.

Camden

Black Box Studio
314 Linden Street
Rutgers–Camden

The Black Box Studio is an intimate experimental theater space seating up to 150 and providing full stage audio/video and lighting.

Walter K. Gordon Theater
314 Linden Street
Rutgers–Camden

The Walter K. Gordon Theater is a 650-seat proscenium theater with state-of-the-art lighting, sound, and video/multimedia capability and brand-new luxurious seating with no obstructed views.

Stedman Gallery
314 Linden Street
Rutgers–Camden

The Stedman Gallery is one of the area’s premier visual arts galleries and presents a wide range of national and regional touring exhibitions year-round. An intimate gathering space, the Stedman often hosts poetry readings, film screenings, and other special events.