The Broad Stage provides a much-needed performance facility for the College and the surrounding community. Its 499-seat state-of-the-art Theater anchors a performing arts complex at the SMC Madison Campus on Santa Monica Boulevard and 11th Street. Its Art Gallery features student and faculty exhibitions in addition to world-class artists.

Its 99 flexible smaller rehearsal hall is used for the presentation of spontaneous and experimental works as well as other types of performance. Its presenting program hosts high-level professional productions of dance, theater, voice, chamber music, film and spoken word. The arts education outreach for local and neighboring K-12 schools utilizes artists presented from the main Theater Series as well as local performers. The adjacent building is a home for the SMC Music Academy.

325-seat and 200-seat theatres added to the Music and Drama Departments at Texas Christian University (TCU) helped to create a state-of-the-art performing arts center, now called the Walsh Center for the Performing Arts. FDA also collaborated with the university and the architect to arrange backstage support spaces that fully integrate the existing and new theatres into a single efficient performing arts complex.

A scene shop that FDA helped to lay out for the Center supports the existing university theatre, Landreth Hall as well as these theatres. The PepsiCo Recital hall interiors are finished in travertine, limestone, granite, and clay tile as a counterpoint to older buildings on the TCU campus. The palette creates what architect calls “a small enclosure with a grand sound.”

The smaller Hayes Theatre gives students an experimental space for innovative and non traditional productions.