A former elementary school campus was transformed into Santa Monica College’s Performing Arts Center with the build out of The Broad Stage, a 540-seat theater, and the renovation of existing school buildings into music classrooms, practice rooms, and The Edye, a black box theater for lectures, recitals, and smaller performances.
The Broad Stage is a venue on LA’s Westside acclaimed for its acoustics and intimate seating capacity, especially in relation to its generous stage size (40 ft wide by 38 ft deep) and state-of-the-art technical capabilities. The space supports a full orchestra shell in three configurations, a 80% trappable stage deck, a 24 ft proscenium with variable width up to 62 ft, and a fly system of 38 lines, expandable to 72.
Within a space capable of supporting the most demanding and ambitious productions of national and international significance, even the most distant audience member can make eye contact with the performer on stage, because of the intimate design of the theater’s interior.
