Facilities

The University Theatre at 222 York Street is Yale School of Drama’s center. It includes a proscenium theatre seating 654 which is shared and a smaller, more flexible experimental theatre, both of which are shared with the undergraduate dramatic association. The University Theatre also houses the main administrative offices, the scene, prop, and costume shops, several classrooms, and the drama library.

Yale Repertory Theatre is located in a distinctive historical building on the corner of Chapel and York Streets. Formerly the Calvary Baptist Church, the theatre contains a 491 seat auditorium facing a modified apron stage, and the Yale School of Drama/ Yale Repertory Theatre box office.

The New Theater in Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Hall, located at 1156 Chapel Street, contains a flexible performance space seating up to 200. This building also houses the Yale School of Art.

Drama School annex at 205 Park Street, houses the Design department, the Robertson Computer lab, the Laurie Beechman Center for Theatrical Sound Design and Music, a lighting lab, performance space, and several classrooms.

Vernon Hall at 217 Park Street contains the yale cabaret as well as rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices.

149 York Street is home to several key administrative offices including: registrar, admissions, business, and financial aid as well as an extensive paint shop, rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices. The Digital Media Center for the Arts is also housed in this building.

The Drama Library, operated by the Yale University Library system, contains over 30,000 volumes primarily for the use of students in yale school of drama. The library, situated in the University Theatre building, houses one of the largest working collections in existence of books and periodicals on drama and theatre. Books on the performing arts other than theatre, including motion pictures, television, and radio are also represented in the collection. Students in the School of Drama are free to use the collections in the libraries of other graduate and professional schools, the Sterling Memorial Library, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

The Digital Media Center for the Arts at 149 York Street is a multimedia facility that was created to explore new areas of education and cross-disciplinary interactionthat result when traditional art collides with the computer age. The center was conceived and designed by Yale’s leaders in art, architecture, drama, history of art, film studies, and music and from the University Art Gallery, the Center for British Art, the Arts Library, and Information Technology Services.