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Annalee Dorozynski, a fifth-year game design and development major, has created a VR recreation of the Music Performance Theater that audience members can use to locate their seat to see the view of the stage from that location.

After arriving on campus for the first time just a few weeks before their audition, Angel Ash landed a major role in Macbeth, showing in the SHED’s Sklarsky Glass Box Theater.

Five months before the first audience is expected in RIT’s new Music Performance Theater, a string quartet from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and students from the RIT Philharmonic Orchestra were the first to take the stage to help conduct acoustic testing.

With more than 3,000 students participating in the performing arts at RIT, including a record 601 new Performing Arts Scholars and more than 50 performing arts-focused student clubs, it’s not hard to find instrumental, vocal, theatrical, and dance performances on and around campus throughout the year.

Archinect details updates from Michael Maltzan Architecture regarding the firm's forthcoming project: RIT's Music Performance Theater. The 750-seat venue is expected to open to the public later this year, according to the LA-based firm.

WHAM-TV speaks to director Ben Waterhouse and assistant director Adrian Dowd-Pettingill about the production.

The Smithsonian Magazine features RIT's theater organ, set to be placed in the new performing arts theatre.

NTID’s Department of Performing Arts and RIT’s School of Performing Arts will present “The Cracked Nut,” a reimagining of the classic ballet “The Nutcracker,” April 4-6 in the Robert F. Panara Theatre on the RIT campus. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on April 4-5 and 2 p.m. on April 5-6.

Rochester City Ballet is teaming up with RIT to present “Visionary,” a four-piece showcase of classical and contemporary movement, including a world premiere version of Boléro.

Ovation will feature 14 acts of dance, vocal and instrumental music. The first-place act will win $1,000, with a $500 prize awarded to the second-place act.

Students from RIT’s School of Performing Arts and NTID’s Department of Performing Arts brought home awards and honors from the annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). One of eight regional competitions draws students from theater programs nationwide, faculty, students, and interpreters traveled to Pittsburgh, for a chance to advance to the national competition in April. This is the eighth year in which RIT students have completed in a range of categories from acting to dramaturgy.

The first pieces of a massive, historic theater pipe organ built more than 90 years ago have been installed at RIT’s music performance theater, which is currently under construction.