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Spectrum News speaks to architect Michael Maltzan about the design of RIT’s new performing arts center, highlighting its role as a unique, state-of-the-art venue for student and community performances.

RIT’s past and present converged as four presidents—spanning more than three decades of leadership—reflected on the university’s evolution and how they have helped position it for the future.

WXXI News features comments from Erica Haskell, director of RIT’s School of Performing Arts, and RIT President Bill Sanders about the opening of the university’s new performing arts center and its role in supporting interdisciplinary collaboration and student creativity.

Rochester Business Journal speaks to Erica Haskell, director of RIT’s School of Performing Arts, about the opening of the university’s new performing arts center and its role in advancing interdisciplinary collaboration and the regional arts scene.

Spectrum News reports on the opening of the new RIT Performing Arts Center, a 747-seat venue that will host student and community performances and feature a restored historic pipe organ.

The 747-seat, 50,000-square-foot building officially opened this morning. The center will provide a state-of-the-art venue for theater, musical theater, music, and dance for both RIT students and community groups.

Bob Kalka ’89 and his wife, Kelly Porter Kalka ’88, have made a donation to support RIT’s new Performing Arts Center, naming the theater’s follow spot room.

The 747-seat venue is the first major theater project in the Rochester region in decades. It will provide a state-of-the-art performance hall, which will be used by students as well as community groups to hold concerts, talks, and other events.

Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Performing Arts, National Technical Institute for the Deaf Performing Arts Department, and Dance at RIT have teamed up to create and produce an original production, “Pure Imagination: The Magical Candy Shoppe,” April 17-19, on the RIT campus.

GRE Why Roc TV interviews Erica Haskell, director of the School of Performing Arts, about the new RIT Performing Arts Center, a 40,000-square-foot venue rooted in creative legacy and designed to expand performing arts opportunities for non-majors.

Students get hands-on experience learning what it takes to open the state-of-the-art RIT Performing Arts Center, set to open April 10.

Ovation was created nearly a decade ago to push students to be more creative, innovative, complex thinkers, traits that are desirable with prospective employers.