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Facilities

The Performing Arts and Humanities Building (PAHB) provides state of the art facilities for the UMBC Departments of Theatre, Music, and Dance. The PAHB houses a 250 seat Proscenium Theatre, 125 seat Black Box Theatre, two rehearsal studios, design studios, costume shop, scene shop, dressing rooms, conference rooms and class rooms.

The PAHB is a premier facility in the region, providing a home for the arts in Baltimore and UMBC. Find more information about the PAHB here.

To book rooms in the PAHB for events, including the theatres, please visit pahb.umbc.edu/rentals or email PAHBevents@umbc.edu.

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Photo Gallery

Inside of the Theatre Rehearsal Studio, filled with many students talking and stretching.

House of the Proscenium Theatre. Several rows of red seats visible, with a balcony level.

Students work on sewing samples in the costume shop.

A student drills a screw into a tall, vertical piece of plywood.

Students sit in the Theatre Rehearsal Studio, a semi-circular classroom with large windows

Student builds scenery in the scene shop

student stands near the edge of the Black Box tension grid

Several students rehearse in the Theatre Rehearsal Studio

Student flies in a baton on the Proscenium Theatre's fly rail.

Two students use a tape measure on the Proscenium Theatre floor

Student welds metal, wearing a helmet, gloves, and jacket.

Large EOS lighting console with four monitors in the Black Box booth

Close up of a student hand stitching a costume

Student walks on the Black Box grid

Many students walk around the PAHB lobby

Students look at a projector in the costume shop

Several students sit and stand in the Theatre Rehearsal Studio, TRS

Scene Shop, full of machinery and storage racks

Set on the Black Box, consisting of four tall black pillars of different sizes

Set on the Black Box stage, consisting on two large, grey platforms skewed on a 45 degree angle

Student hangs a light on the Black Box tension grid

Outside of the Proscenium Theatre on the second floor

Set in the Black Box theatre, lit up with blue and purple lights. Set consists of two large, grey platforms skewed on a 45 degree angle.

Top view of the empty lobby, filled with round tables and chairs

Exterior of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building. Semi-circular and made of silver panels.

Students work at a table on the Proscenium Theatre stage, surrounded by wooden pallets and lights

Set on the Black Box stage. Consists of two grey platforms, a rectangular wall, and a large metal tree

Black Box tension grid

Exterior of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building. One side is round, with silver paneling. The other is rectangular, with brick.

Proscenium Theatre stage, covered in plywood and carts of lights

Proscenium Theatre stage, covered in plywood

Empty Proscenium theatre stage. Rows of lights are lined up on the downstage apron.

Proscenium Theatre stage, covered in work in progress set pieces

Proscenium Theatre stage, covered in wooden flats

Proscenium Theatre stage, covered in wooden flats

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