School of Performing Arts Facilities

The School of Performing Arts facilities include 25+ practice rooms, Fox Recital Hall, Glasrud Auditorium, Hansen Theatre, Gaede Stage & 3 recording studios. As a student in the School of Performing Arts, you’ll have 24-hour access to the building in order to practice when it fits your schedule.

Delmar J. Hansen Theatre
As the largest public-gathering space on the campus of Minnesota State University Moorhead, the Delmar J. Hansen Theatre is a proscenium style theatre, which seats approximately 850 audience members. Complete with a hydraulic forestage/orchestra pit and fly house, the Hansen Theatre is used a for variety of events including the Cheryl Nelson-Lossett Performing Arts Series, University Theatre Series, MSUM Children’s Theatre, The Straw Hat Players, and many more.

The Gaede Stage
The Gaede Stage is a thrust style theatre, which seats approximately 330 audience members. The Gaede Stage is fashioned after the original Guthrie thrust theatre, and is used primarily by the MSUM Theatre Arts Department, including its University Theatre Series and The Straw Hat Players.

Fox Recital Hall

Glasrud Auditorium

Recording Studio
You will have an opportunity to experience state-of-the-art recording facilities and performing spaces.