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New Performing Arts Center
Set to break ground this fall (2007), The associated
parking deck has already been completed and work has started
on the infrastructure for the tunnel to connect the new
facility to the historic "quad". Read all about
it by clicking on one of the following links.
JMU
Unveils New Performing Arts Center Plans (PDF)
Fall 2006 Newsletter
(PDF FORMAT)
Groundbreaking
Ceremony October 26th,
Schedule of events:
3:00pm, Wilson
Hall: Debut performance of the Centennial
piece "Portrait in Bluestone" by Brian
Balmages ('98) -- a work for orchestra and choir.
4:00pm, New Performing
Arts Center site: Groundbreaking!
5:00pm, Duke and
Bluestone Drives: Homecoming Parade
Parking is available
in the Warsaw Ave. Parking Deck. Permits are NOT
required. Questions? Call Theresa Lind at 888-880-3466
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Tunnel Infrastructure construction begins,
July 2007
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Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre
Duke Hall (LST)
Completed in 1967, the Duke Fine Arts Center (later
renamed Duke Hall), Named for second president Dr. Samuel
Page Duke, is home to Latimer-Shaeffer Theatre. The theatre
is named for Dr. Mary E. Latimer, former English faculty
member, and Edna T. Shaeffer formerly of the music faculty.
LATIMER SHAEFFER THEATRE,
DUKE HALL ON THE CAMPUS MAP
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Theatre II
completed in 1922, was formerly occupied by Wampler Foods
Inc. JMU began using the building in 1974. It houses the
Experimental Theatre, theater offices and classrooms. The
university's buildings and grounds department also uses a
portion of the building.
THEATRE II ON THE CAMPUS MAP
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Grace Street Costume Shop
The costume shop resides in this refurbished facility
until it is time to move into our new performing arts
center. The costume shop is located only two blocks away
from our current main stage performance space at LST-Duke
Hall.
Directions to the shop from LST-Duke Hall. Walk down
Grace Street across Main Street for about two blocks. Right
after you walk past the Rockingham Coop, you will reach
Chesapeake Ave. Turn left on Chesapeake. The Costume shop is
the white building adjoining the brick building.
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In Memory of Lincoln House,
Former Location of our Costume Shop
n 1926, the Harrisonburg Post Office established a
sub-station at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lincoln, which
was conveniently located across the street from the State
Teachers College. A decade later, the house was pressed into
service as a dormitory when the college needed to
accommodate a growing enrollment. In the 1940s, it became
the home of Sigma Sigma Sigma and in the 1960s housed some
of the first male students. At different times, Lincoln
House housed the music department, a tearoom, the bookstore,
faculty and student lounges, and finally our costume shop,
before it was razed in 2006 to make room for our new
performing arts complex, now being built. - Lincon House was
much loved by our costume staff, students, and faculty. It's
spirit will be missed.
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Music Building
Located right across the grass from The Latimer-Shaeffer
Theatre, Duke Hall. Voice lessons and on occasion, music
rehearsals take place in the music building in service to
our Musical Theatre area.
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