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![Miller Theater before it is prepared for a show.](/images/Miller_theatre_3.jpg)
Miller Theater
Miller Theater serves as the primary performance space for Department of Theatre and Dance productions. This proscenium style house offers fixed seating for approximately 380 patrons.
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Poorman Black Box Theater
Poorman Black Box Theater offers a venue for the exploration of the art of theatre in an intimate, up-to-date environment. This flexible space serves both as a classroom as well as a performance venue for plays, musicals, and other theatre productions.
Shop Spaces
The scene shop is fully equipped with stationary tools as well as a variety of hand tools as well as paint area. The costume shop has Bernina sewing machines, industrial sewing machine and two sergers
![Dressing rooms at Messiah College's theater.](/images/dressing_room.jpg)
Dressing Rooms
Separate male and female dressing rooms with seating for 12 actors each, restroom stalls, and a shower stall.
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Climenhaga Building
Completed in 1981, Climenhaga Building contains a large lecture hall/theatre that seats nearly 370, art studios and gallery, theatre workspace, faculty offices and classrooms.
![Students dancing at the Grace Pollock Dance Studio.](/images/Grace_Pollock_Dance_Studio_6.jpg)
Grace Pollock Dance Studio
This renovated studio is used as dance classroom space, theatre and dance rehearsal space and small dance concert venue for student presentations. This studio is a 1,600 square-foot room with 1,144 square-feet covered by a raised Marley floor. Mirrors and bars line two walls, and masking curtains are used to create a small performance space. Included in this space are a small lighting grid and ETC 48 circuit dimmer rack, an ETC Smartfade lighting console with a small sound system and flat screen TV monitor, and live feed video camera for use in teaching or presentations.