The Lindemann Performing Arts Center is a performing and visual arts facility at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The building is located at 144 Angell Street on Brown's main campus in the city's College Hill neighborhood, and opened in October 2023.
- Venue
- Lindemann Performing Arts Center
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- 130 Angell Street, Providence, RI
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- Providence, US
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center is a performing and visual arts facility at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The building is located at 144 Angell Street on Brown's main campus in the city's College Hill neighborhood, and opened in October 2023. The Lindemann and adjacent Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts are both used by the Brown Arts Institute and comprise part of the university's Perelman Arts District. The Arts Center is named for benefactor Frayda Lindemann and her husband George Lindemann. Designed by Joshua Ramus of REX, the building features a main hall that physically adapts to accommodate a variety of performance configurations, in a manner similar to that of the firm's Wyly Theatre. The building's exterior is clad in fluted panels made of extruded aluminum. The Lindemann contains Brown's largest performance venue, with the main hall accommodating up to 625 seats in its most expanded configuration. The building's total square footage is 118,000. The building was selected as the Editors Pick for The Architect's Newspaper's 2024 Best of Design Awards in the "Cultural" category. It received an "Honor Award" in Architecture from the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2025. REX revealed the building's design in February 2019; construction on the building began later that year. Freeing up space for the structure's site required the relocation of a historic Victorian duplex from 130-132 Angell Street to a new site along Brown Street. Movement of the historic house was completed in 2018. The Lindemann's Main Hall follows a new architectural typology for performing arts spaces. All six surfaces of the hall modulate physically and acoustically to create five distinct stage-audience configurations-experimental media, recital, end-stage, orchestra, and flat floor. An array of secondary modes are also possible. The automated and manually assisted performance equipment installed to make such transformations