Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

This new arts center is an icon for both Kansas City and the architectural world. The 285,000 square foot center includes the 1,800-seat Muriel McBrien Kauffman Theatre for opera, musical, and dance productions, and the 1,600-seat Helzberg Hall for symphonic concerts. The two halls are extremely intimate for both audience and performers. Theatre patrons are welcomed to the center in the glass-enclosed Brandmeyer Great Hall which serves both venues.

Services

Preliminary development including feasibilty study and programming, concept design, theatre planning, and theatre equipment design and specification

Owner

Land Capital Corporation

Users

Kansas City Ballet, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Kansas City Symphony

Acoustician

Nagata Acoustics

Theatre Type(s)

Arts center, Concert hall, Multipurpose theatre, Opera house

Seat Count(s)

1800, 1600

Construction Type

New construction

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• Performing Architecture: Opera Houses, Theatres and Concert Halls for the Twenty-First Century