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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 Grand Piano Celebration, Fall Choral Festival Concert, Mason School of Theater's Head Over Heels, The Boy Detective Fails, Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Rags, and The Gondoliers; Mason Symphony Orchestra and Choruses, Jazz for Justice, Big Band Showdown; Company Gala Dance Concert. |
| Hylton Performing Arts Center | 102,000 square feet of state-of-the-art, multi-performance spaces (Merchant Hall, Gregory Family Theater; Education and Rehearsal Hall, and more) to serve the community on the Science and Technology campus in Prince William County. | Mason Opera's Amahl and the Night Visitors; Mason School of Dance: Fall New Dances, Dance Innovations, Gala Concert; Dewberry School of Music: Mason Broadway Chorale Showcase; Mason Opera: Cendrillon; Mesdames de la Halle, Mason School of Theater's Raising Voices. |
| Harris Theatre | 460-seat theater on the Fairfax campus | School of Theater's Everybody, The Mason Cabaret; Dewberry School of Music's Faculty Artist Showcase, Mason Opera Scenes, Mason Jazz Ensemble, String Chamber Ensemble Concert, and Mason Opera: Dido and Aeneas; Mason Dance Company. |
| TheaterSpace | Flexible theater space seating up to 140 for performances on the Fairfax campus | Sutta, Just Like Us, 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 | School of Theater's Love's Labors: Quarrels and Cravings, Mason Jazz Monday, National Jazz Workshop, New Sound Collective, Percussion Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble and solo recitals |