Facilities
Each year the Pepperdine University Center for the Arts is host to over 250 public events, including performances by international touring stars and visual artists, student productions, and exhibitions and performances by community groups such as the Malibu Ballet Society, Children's Theatre Experience, and Malibu Art Association.
Smothers Theatre
Smothers Theatre, completed in 1980 and named for a Kansas City-based friend of Pepperdine's, Frances Smothers, is host to hundreds of events each season. With its raked seating and superior sight-line, it is considered to be one of the finest theatres of its size in Los Angeles. The auditorium has one floor, American-style seating, 450 capacity in 15 rows, with the option of adding additional seating for 50 in the orchestra pit when lowered to auditorium level. The theatre is accessible to the handicapped.
Raitt Recital Hall
Raitt Recital Hall is a lavish facility given to the University by Rosemary and John Raitt (the legendary Broadway star), who also founded the Center for the Arts Guild. With American-style seating, it has a capacity of 118 in 9 rows on one floor. This acoustically superior and intimate hall is home to the critically-acclaimed Stotsenberg Recital Series, funded by Mrs. Edward Stotsenberg of Malibu. The hall is accessible to the handicapped.
Helen E. Lindhurst Theatre
Helen E. Lindhurst Theatre is a "flexible black box" space, seating anywhere from 50 to 100 people and the venue for some of our most innovative student productions. It also provides much-needed rehearsal space. The theatre is accessible to the handicapped.
The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art
The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art has 3,000 square feet of exhibition space and hosts eight to ten temporary exhibitions each season, including one-person shows by artists such as Sandro Chia, Sam Francis, Marsden Hartley, and Peter Lodato. It was named for its benefactor, the late Frederick R. Weisman, who is regarded as one of the country's leading collectors of 20th-century art. The museum is accessible to the handicapped.
