Victoria Theater, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Victoria Theater is the flexible space within New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). Opened in 1997, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center comprises two major performance spaces - Prudential Hall and Victoria Theatre - a visually arresting all-glass lobby, restaurants, dressing rooms, founders lounge, bar, café, and gift shop. In a structure directly adjacent to NJPAC, The Lucent Technologies Center for Arts Education houses the activities and training of the Center's Education Department. This design-build project has been an instant success and is looked upon as a model project in urban renewal, architectural design and operation of performing arts centers.

The 500-seat Victoria Theater conveys an intimate and inviting atmosphere with its orchestra-level and single balcony seating. The theater's elegance and flexibility provide a perfect setting for theatrical production, chamber recital, contemporary dance, jazz and popular music concerts, and experimental theater. In order to adjust the room's acoustical environment for speech or amplified events, acoustical curtains can be extended; this action provides a reduced level of sound reverberance.

Every year the Center presents a multitude of touring groups and companies along with performances by its New York City's American Ballet Theatre, and NJPAC's resident company, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

Artec provided Design and Planning services covering Auditorium Acoustics Design, Specialized Performance Equipment Systems (sound & communication systems) design and Background Noise and Vibration Control consulting for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The Architect was Barton Myers Associates.