Facilities

Williams Performing Arts Center

The 92,000-square-foot WPAC is the second largest building on campus and one of the top performance venues among colleges and universities in the Southwest. It was part of the $100 million "To Lead and To Serve" campaign that raised more than $114 million for ACU. Designed to be the home of ACU's departments of music and theatre, it includes:

• The 325-seat Lewis and Jerry Fulks Theatre, a thrust-stage facility designed to the theatre department's specifications with the help of acoustical and theatre consultants.
• A 282-seat Recital Hall that is acoustically "tuneable" to accomodate the performing artist(s) and number of patrons.
• The Clara and James Culp Theatre, a multi-form facility designed to allow multiple stage/audience configurations. The only physical restrictions for performances in this blackbox space are the location of the walls, ceiling, and floor.
• Spacious, modern dressing rooms and laundry rooms
• Large instrument and choral rehearsal halls
• A computer lab featuring Macs, PCs, and 16 electronic pianos
• Forty-four acoustically treated practice rooms and faculty studios
• Faculty offices and meeting rooms
• State-of-the-art classrooms
• Choral and band libraries
• A box office, courtyard and sculpture garden

Additional Facilities

• There is no better site for our annual Homecoming Musical than the Abilene Civic Center, a 2100 seat auditorium with modern fly, sound, and lighting systems!
• Established in 1929, Sewell Theatre on campus was the home of the ACU Dinner Theatre for many years. Sewell now functions as home base for scenic design and construction.
• The renovated Firestation Theatre now houses the costume shop.