Theater Arts Building/Van Duzer Theatre — Attraction in Arcata

A great place to see great music. The only drawback is there is no real dance floor. So people just dance in the aisles if they can. Make sure to load up your parking meters extra before you go in otherwise theyll be waiting to issue you a 40$ parking ticket as soon as the meter runs out. It's a college campus so parking can be a bit annoying. Check a map of where to park if you've never been here before. Be prepared to walk up some stairs to get...

Saw several great shows here when I was attending school at the University - including Stomp, which was excellent, and Habib Koite. Also, I was a part of a couple of ceremonies and several other events here too.

I remember that the sound quality for Stomp and Habib Koite were excellent - though, being big acts, they probably brought their own equipment.

Great memories here though, and several a fun play and bluegrass show...

Theater is fairly easy to find on the large campus. Theatre it's self is nice, however; the seats are a bit close together. So it felt a little cramped in there. The theater had kinda of an older feel to it, not modern. I liked that. The dance performance that I saw, put on by the students was very good. The lighting and sound system was good in the theater. No echo as you might here in other theatres. Made for a very enjoyable...