Theatre does not exist without space. At the Sargent Conservatory, the actor, stage manager, designer, director and technician constantly transform space through vision, skill, and hard work.
The Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts
The Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts, funded in part by the late Conrad Hilton, houses administration offices, two spacious dance studios, dressing rooms, design spaces, fully equipped scene and costume shops, and light and sound labs. It also houses two of our theatre spaces: the Virginia Browning Mainstage Theatre and the Emerson Studio Theatre.
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The Browning Theatre at Webster University's design was inspired by the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. The thrust theatre is used for a multitude of artistic activities and has seating for nearly 1,000 people. It is home to the Sargent Conservatory’s Mainstage Series, as well as to productions staged by the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Webster University Dance Ensemble, and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
Emerson Studio Theatre
The Emerson Studio is Webster's unique black box theatre. It is a flexible space that is constantly changing from mock proscenium to fully immersive environments. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis uses this space to present its Studio Series of intimate theatrical works. Sargent Conservatory uses this space each semester for at least one of its productions.
Stage III is a small proscenium-style house that contains movable seating and modified thrust capabilities. Stage III is home to at least one Sargent Conservatory production every semester as well as to our “Every Tuesday” series of performances, which involve 20-minute plays presented almost every Tuesday by students in the directing sequence.
Stage III in Webster Hall
Stage III is a small proscenium-style house that contains movable seating and modified thrust capabilities. Stage III is home to at least one Sargent Conservatory production every semester as well as to our “Every Tuesday” series of performances, which involve 20-minute plays presented almost every Tuesday by students in the directing sequence.
Performance Classroom Spaces
The Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts has classrooms in the Loretto-Hilton Center as well as in Webster University's Old Orchard facility.
The Loretto-Hilton Center, a professionally designed theatre center, houses some of our productions and most of our production classes. We share this building with two professional companies, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Opera Theatre St. Louis. Students benefit from the high-quality facilities that are in use by our professional partners. There are two scene shops, a paint annex, costume shop, crafts shop, dye room, wig and makeup room, and props shop in the Loretto-Hilton Center, as well as two design studios that serve as our classrooms.
Performance classes take place in the Old Orchard facility a short walk from the Loretto-Hilton Center. There are six acting studios and a green room at "Spaces," our nickname for the facility. Acting and directing classes also take place in Stage III, the Conservatory's small proscenium theatre in Webster Hall.
Dance classes take place in the two dance studios in the Loretto-Hilton Center as well as in the studios at Old Orchard.
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