Butler Theatre Facilities & Venues

As a Butler Theatre student, you can expect to have access to state-of-the-art spaces, including our Butler Arts & Events Center. Whether it’s performing spaces, classrooms, scene shops, or costume shops, you’ll have the spaces and the expertise to do your very best work.

Facilities & Venues

Schrott Center

Howard L. Schrott Center for the Arts

The Schrott Center for the Arts is a 450-seat proscenium theatre. Butler Theatre has produced international theatre productions in the space including Romeo and Juliet and The Water Carriers.

Theatre dressing room

Schrott Center Dressing Rooms

Butler Theatre teaches its make-up course in the spacious Schrott dressing rooms.

Black Box Theatre

Lilly Hall Studio Theatre 168

The Lilly Hall Studio Theatre 168 is a flexible space where a wide range of classics, world premieres, and devised works are produced.

Black Box Theatre

Lab Theatre 328

Lab Theatre 328 is a fantastic black box space that houses experimental work and student-produced work in addition to performances and lighting courses.

Students stretching in black box theatre

Lilly Hall 177

Lilly Hall 177 is an intimate black box space where we teach and produce exciting student work.

Costume Shop

Lilly Hall 45

Lilly Hall 45 is our costume shop.

Dressing room

Lilly Hall 74

Lilly Hall 74 is our make-up and dressing room.

Craft Room

Lilly Hall 68

Lilly Hall 68 is a craft room, which we share with the Department of Dance. We use this space for dying fabrics and creating costume pieces and masks.

Costume Storage Space

Costume Storage Facility

The costume storage facility opened in 2016. The space is meticulously laid out so that students experience a professional-level storage facility for costumes, shoes, handbags, and accessories from a wide variety of eras and cultures.

Scene Shop

Scene Shop

The scene shop opened in fall 2016 and provides students the opportunity to work on set-building skills with a variety of power tools, saws, and welding equipment. The natural light also assists with the painting process.