Your Stage Awaits
At Mason, you are front and center on our many stages.
There are intimate spaces for chamber music, flexible spaces for innovative theater, grand spaces for fully staged dance and musical theater performances, theater and opera, and everything in between. Our performing arts centers (yes, we have two!) are award-winning and equipped with everything to make your dream performance a reality. We have teams to support performances with professional costume design, set construction, lighting and sound. Whether you are performing solo or in an elaborate production, there is a stage for you at Mason.
About Our Performance Spaces
| Performance Venue | Details | Recent student performances |
| Center for the Arts, Concert Hall | 1,935-seat concert hall on the Fairfax Campus | A Musical Feast Concert, Mason Symphony Orchestra and Choruses, Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Company Gala Dance Concert, Rags, Jazz for Justice, School of Music Big Band Showdown, The Gondoliers |
| Hylton Performing Arts Center, Merchant Hall | 1,121-seat opera house-style venue on the Science and Technology campus in Prince William County | Mason Opera: Offenbach's Mesdames de la Halle, Raising Voices, The Three Penny Opera, Mason Dance Company Celebration Concert, Mason Symphony Orchestra, The Mason Cabaret presents The Golden Age of Broadway |
| Hylton Performing Arts Center, Gregory Family Theater | Flexible theater space seating up to 350 for performances on the Science and Technology campus | University Chorale: Broadway Showcase, Mason Opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors |
| Harris Theatre | 460-seat theater on the Fairfax campus |
The Mason Cabaret, Mason Opera: Dido and Aeneas, Mason Dance Company, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Jazz Workshop Concert, 35mm: A Musical Exhibition |
| TheaterSpace | Flexible theater space seating up to 140 for performances on the Fairfax campus | The Women of Lockerbie, Ten-Minute Play Festival, The Imaginary Invalid, Mason Fringe Performances, Our Country's Good |
| Dance Performance Studio | Flexible dance rehearsal and performance space on the Fairfax campus | Mason Dance Studio Series |
| deLaski 3001 | Flexible music rehearsal and performance space on the Fairfax campus | National Jazz Workshop 2019, New Sound Collective, Percussion Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble and solo recitals |