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The approximately 85,000 square-foot center features world-class performance spaces, studios, and classrooms to advance education and artistic innovation, as well as common areas to foster collaboration between scholars and artists in the 51±¬ÁÏÍø community.  

Serving as the production and teaching hub for the 51±¬ÁÏÍø Theatre and Studio Arts Department; the Mullen Center is additionally the central location for all of 51±¬ÁÏÍø’s performing arts enterprises. 

Chief among the versatile performance spaces within the Mullen Center is the Topper Theatre, a 400-seat proscenium-style theatre with tailored acoustics, state-of-the-art theatrical lighting and sound equipment together with a 30-member orchestra pit. The multi-faceted center also houses the 200-seat Court Theatre with flexible seating, a balcony, technologically advanced lighting, and sound equipment, along with the Smith Performance Lab that allows for approximately 75 flexible seating options.

The Mullen Center contains a dance studio, scene shop, costume shop, rehearsal room, dressing rooms, and green rooms. There are practice rooms, classrooms, a box office, faculty and staff offices, three lobbies plus a roof terrace that are all suitable for receptions. Parking is available in the I-1 Garage adjacent to the center on Ithan Avenue.