Behind the Scenes at BU: Light & Sound Lab at Booth Theatre

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Most people know BU’s Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre [/articles/2017/new-joan-edgar-booth-theatre-opens/], the 75,000-square-foot state-of-the-art theater complex on Comm Ave that opened two years ago, for its soaring lobby and [...]250-seat theater, home to College of Fine Arts School of Theatre productions.

But the building is also houses costume shops, faculty offices, classrooms, and on the third floor, a sprawling Light and Sound lab. Spread over two levels, with catwalks on the upper floor, the lab is in near-constant use. More than two dozen classes, including ones in lighting design, sound design, and media design, use the space throughout the year. The lab also functions as a test facility for lighting design students working on productions to experiment with color and special effects. Designers can see how paint samples for a show’s sets will react to light before a production is loaded into the theater.
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