The Robsham Theater Arts Center (RTAC) is the first permanent home designed for theater production at Boston College. Built in 1981, the facility houses a 591 seat main theater, a large lobby and exhibit space, a black box studio theater, a green room, scenery and costume shops, dressing rooms, a design classroom, box office, and faculty and staff offices.
The main theater is a traditional proscenium house with limited thrust capabilities. It seats 591 and is fully handicapped accessible. Designed specifically for educational theater, it includes a completely equipped stage house with fly gallery, an orchestra pit for some twenty musicians, adequate wing and backstage space, and state of the art lighting and sound systems.
The building also includes a flexible black box Bonn Studio Theater that will seat 150 - 200. The Bonn Studio is used for Theatre Department workshop productions, as well as a laboratory for dance and theater classes. The Theatre Department is in residence at the RTAC, as are the Robsham Dance and Theatre Company and the Boston Liturgical Dance Ensemble.
The RTAC and the Theatre Department combine their efforts under an artistic organization known as the University Theater. The University presents 4 faculty directed and 2 student directed productions each academic year.