Facilities

Calhoun has two exceptional venues for performance, film, lecture, music and dance: the Steinberg Theater at 160 West 74th Street, and the Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center at 433 West End Avenue @ 81st Street.

What they say about Calhoun's Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center:

New York Times dance critic Jennifer Dunning called Calhoun's performing arts space "a welcoming home" and a "fertile ground where art can simply push through," in her February 12th review of Calhoun's presentation of The Bends of Life. Read the review>>

"We were truly honored to be a part of this Performing Arts Center opening. The hall is such a fabulous environment and the acoustics are amazing."
 --  Eri Kang and Akira Eguchi, classical pianists

"An die Musik travels and performs in theatres and concert halls all around the world, coming to perform in The Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center was like a gift from heaven, this hall is a jewel."
-- Connie Emmerich, pianist, An die Musik

"...though the center looks at first to be a conventional proscenium theater, with a stage on which the action will take place, in fact it’s something else, a kind of hybrid proscenium and thrust stage... Lots of successful theaters use the thrust configuration (like those at the Lincoln Center Theater), and at Calhoun it’s likely to lead to all sorts of creative staging solutions.  For classical music ... the theater seems blessed with naturally good acoustics. And the ingenious system of sonic reflecting panels and sonic absorptive curtains will allow plenty of room for acoustical tinkering...In short, when taken together with all the lovely athletic and academic spaces the upward addition has provided, Calhoun can boast handsome new facilities on a par with most any in the city."
-- John Rockwell, dance critic, New York Times