Department of Theatre and Speech Facilities

The Haidee & Allen Wild Center for the Arts is the home of the Theatre and Speech Department. The building houses an auditorium, an art gallery, and a recital hall. The Haidee & Allen Wild Center for the Arts Auditorium seats 495 and features a fully-equipped 40-foot proscenium stage, with a single-purchase fly system, an ETC Express light board, a Midas sound mixer, adjacent scene and costume shops, and comfortable dressing rooms and Green Room. The Missouri Recital Hall seats 145 people and has its own independent light and sound systems. It is the permanent home of a grand piano and is a site for lectures, recitals, performances, and classes.

The Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts, which opened February 1990, houses two performance spaces and the P.E.O. Foundation Art Gallery. All campus performances and gallery exhibits are open to the public and are free to Cottey College students and employees. The College brings performers and speakers to the campus through its Cottey Lecturers and Artists Super Series (CLASS). Recent events sponsored by CLASS have included the Missouri State Ballet, Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, The Kansas City Symphony, John Amos in Halley's Comet, and Tin Roof Tango. The Cottey College Faculty Artist Series gives the campus and surrounding communities the opportunity to see our talented and professionally active faculty perform. The Fine Arts Division affords numerous performance opportunities to its students. The Chamber Music Ensemble, Cantabile and Chamber Singers, as well as individual graduating sophomore music recitals are given in the Recital Hall. The theatre department presents six productions each year in the Auditorium. The dance department in addition to its touring and informal performances in Hinkhouse Gymnasium, presents a spring concert in the Auditorium.

The Center for the Arts Auditorium seats 495 audience members. The stage measures 40 X 40 feet with ample wing space at either side. The stage utilizes a modern counterweight fly system. Adjoining the stage is a spacious, well-equipped scene and costume shop with storage space and modern dressing rooms. Stage lighting is controlled by a 60-channel, computerized, lighting board with manual override. The sound system is controlled by a large mixing panel and utilizes a compact disc player, two cassette decks, two reel-to-reel tape players, and a turntable for sound playback. It will also handle sound reinforcement through a battery of microphones integrated with clusters of sophisticated speakers for public address and performance

The Missouri Recital Hall seats 150 audience members with a stage space of 32 X 30. The Center for the Arts houses a nine-foot Steinway grand and an Allen electronic organ which can be used in both performance spaces. The Recital Hall is used for music performances, speeches, award presentations, and symposia. The Humanity Division's Foreign Film Series is shown in the Recital Hall.

Department of Theatre and Speech

• Dr. Rusalyn Andrews
  
• Professor Michael Denison

Course Descriptions

Cottey Productions

Opportunities in Theatre and Speech

Facilities