Ferguson Center for the Arts
The Ferguson Center for the Arts is a theater and concert hall on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, United States. The complex fully opened in September 2005 with two concert halls and many other facilities. Performing arts venues The Ferguson Center for the Arts contains three distinct, separate concert halls: the Diamonstein Concert Hall, the Peebles Theater, and the Studio Theater. Diamonstein Concert Hall Diamonstein Concert Hall is the flagship auditorium in the complex. The hall is acoustically engineered so that anyone on stage can be heard from any seat without a microphone. The hall has 1,725 seats. Peebles Theater A 453-seat theater in the Ferguson Center for the Arts complex. The Studio Theater A 200-seat theater in the Ferguson Center for the Arts complex. Other facilities The building also contains rehearsal halls, a dance studio, full scenery, prop and costume shops, arts studios, Ferguson Hall Art Gallery, the Falk Gallery, music practice rooms, and many educational classrooms and other learning areas. The majority of these rooms opened in the Fall of 2005. History Formerly, the Ferguson High School was located at 1 University Place. The name "Ferguson" is well known in the Newport News