Segerstrom Center for the Arts facts for kids
Exterior view of Segerstrom Hall (c.2007)
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| Former names | Orange County Performing Arts Center (1986-2011) |
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| Address | 600 Town Center Dr Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1916 |
| Type | Performing arts center |
| Capacity | 2,994 (Segerstrom Hall) 1,704 (Segerstrom Concert Hall) 600 (Samueli Theater) 260 (Morr Theater) |
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| Opened | September 29, 1986 |
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| Pacific Symphony Philharmonic Society of Orange County Pacific Chorale |
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The Segerstrom Center for the Arts (originally called Orange County Performing Arts Center) is a performing arts complex located in Costa Mesa, California, United States, which opened in 1986. The Center's Segerstrom Hall and Judy Morr Theater were designed by Charles Lawrence and opened in 1986. The Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Samueli Theater, and the Lawrence and Kristina Dodge Education Center opened in 2006, and were designed by Cesar Pelli, an architect who has received numerous awards and other honors for his work including the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1995.
It is the artistic home to three resident companies: Pacific Symphony, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, and Pacific Chorale.
Facilities
Performance
Segerstrom Hall is a 3,000-seat opera house-style theater that serves as the largest facility on the campus and is often utilized for Broadway musicals, ballet, and other large productions. Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall is a 2,000-seat traditional concert hall adjacent to Segestrom Hall. The concert hall hosts the William J. Gillespie Concert Organ (C.B. Fisk Opus 130). It has 4,322 pipes and 75 stops, including 57 individual voices, 4 manual keyboards with 61 notes each., 1 pedal keyboard with 32 notes.
Samueli Theater is a 375-seat multi-functional facility within the same building as the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. The theater, named in honor of Henry Samueli due to his US$10,000,000 donation to the Segerstrom complex, is suitable for jazz, cabaret, theater, and special events. The Judy Morr Theater, located in the Center for Dance and Innovation, is a 250-seat hall primarily used for rehearsal space by ballet companies and is the primary studio for the ABT Gillespie School.
In addition, the Education Center includes the Studio Performance Space and Boeing Education Lab. The Segerstrom complex is also home to the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School, the School of Dance and Music for Children with Disabilities, Leatherby's Café Rouge, George's Café, Plaza Cafe, and two private donor rooms.
Julianne and George Argyros Plaza is a 46,000-square-foot (4,300 m2) area with restaurants, a permanent stage, public seating, and picnic areas.
Orange County Museum of Art
The Orange County Museum of Art broke ground on a new primary facility at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus on September 20th, 2019. The 53,000 square feet (4,900 m2) structure was designed by Morphosis Architects and was topped off on October 6, 2020 with a virtual ceremony held.
South Coast Repertory
The Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory is also located on the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus. It is widely regarded as one of America's foremost producers of new plays.
