About the Touhill Performing Arts Center • About the building   The University of Missouri-St. Louis’ Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center offers two theaters that allow for great intimacy between the artist and the audience. Designed by the acclaimed architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the Center houses the 1,625-seat Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall and the 300-seat E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater. The Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall, with its warm European opera house feel, seats up to 1,625 – the only performance space of its size in St. Louis. Regular presentations of theater, musicals, opera, classical music soloists and ensembles, dance, and popular entertainers, as well as University theater, music and dance events will be offered to audiences. The Lee Theater – a marvelously flexible black-box-like theater space – will allow even closer interaction between audience and performer with its presentations of music, theater and dance. The flexibility of the two theaters allows the University to bring a wide range of performing arts to this facility, and make it the ultimate teaching and learning experience for faculty, students, and the community. For a selection of 360° views of the Touhill Performing Arts Center, please click here. Architect:   The Wischmeyer Architects/Pei-Cobb Freed & Partners Theater Consultant:   Theatre Projects Consultants Acoustician:   Kirkegaard & Associates Lighting Consultant:   Ann Kale Associates, Inc. Structural:   Heideman and Associates Civil:   David Mason and Associates Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection:   McClure Engineering Landscape Architect:   Austin Tao and Associates Signage:   Kiku Obata & Company Cost Control:   Donnell Consultants, Inc.     Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall Seating:   1,625 Proscenium:   30’H x 56’W Stage:   47’D x 56’W with 32’ x 47’ stage right wing space, 15’ x 47’ stage left wing space Fly system:   70 linesets     E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater Seating:   Up to 360 Stage area:   24’D x 66’W     Backstage Six star dressing rooms, capacity 12 Three small group dressing rooms, capacity 16 Six large group dressing rooms, capacity 60 Two performer lounges Two musician changing rooms Wardrobe maintenance room Make-up, hair and wig room Two ticket offices Rehearsal room with ballet bar and mirrored wall Patrons lounge, capacity 25 Refreshment bar on Terrace Level Three catering kitchens Administrative offices For detailed technical specifications regarding the building, please click here. Back to “About the Center” Back to top