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Theatre Performance Venues (Watts/Healy) (TTS-002)

Theatre Performance Venues (Watts/Healy) is documented in the DePaul Resource Map as shared research or teaching infrastructure at DePaul University, The Theatre School, Performance venues, Lincoln Park. Documentation is partial or indirect, so the listing is treated as likely current. Venue spaces with production technology used for student productions and related technical work — Watts (250-seat thrust) and Healy (flexible black box) with published rental tech-report inventories for lighting, sound, and fly/soft goods. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ~

  • College / school: The Theatre School
  • Sub-unit: Performance venues
  • Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
  • Last Verified: July 1, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Description & capabilities

Venue spaces with production technology used for student productions and related technical work — Watts (250-seat thrust) and Healy (flexible black box) with published rental tech-report inventories for lighting, sound, and fly/soft goods.

Access status

  • Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation
  • Rationale: Theatre School programs and performances are the primary public entry; production shops and labs are for enrolled Theatre School students unless arranged through school staff.
  • Access URL: theatre.depaul.edu/about/facilities
  • Contact name: Theatre box office
  • Contact email: theatreboxoffice@depaul.edu
  • Verification date: 2026-07-01
  • Source URLs:
  • theatre.depaul.edu/about/facilities
  • theatre.depaul.edu

Verification

  • Status: ~ Likely current
  • Rationale: Documented from an archived institutional source. primary source: https://theatre.depaul.edu/about/facilities
  • Last verified: 2026-07-01
  • Evidence:
  • The Dr. John R. and Joyce L. Watts Theatre (250-seat thrust) and The Sondra A. & Denis Healy Theatre (90-seat black box) — The Theatre School performance venues. (https://theatre.depaul.edu/about/facilities)
  • Supplementary lab reference: https://theatre.depaul.edu

Equipment

Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search by instrument or lab name.

Category Specific equipment
Live sound reinforcement Watts and Healy theatre sound systems
Stage lighting Professional lighting grids and dimming
Scenic fabrication Stage rigging and fly systems

Source: Theatre School venues (May 2026). Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Last verified: October 5, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Operationally linked to theatre production instruction and shop outputs.

Linked publications

  • Play from the Heart: On Crafting a Community of Empathy in the Theatre (MFA Directing, 2014) — VIA (PUB-167). Healy Theatre named as staging venue; Watts and shops not named.

Documented connections

Generated from documented publication and people connections. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as 1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.

Publications

Sources

  1. The Healy Theatre, a 100 seat black box, offered us some exciting staging possibility. It was a true honor to get the chance to christen the Healy Theatre in its inaugural season. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Notes

Facility entry.