STOCKBRIDGE THEATER
PINKERTON ACADEMY
LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE

The Pinkerton Academy Arts and Humanities Center is organized around the requirements of the four departments it houses: Drama, Music, Art, and English. At its core is the 892-seat Stockbridge Theater, with its 3,300 ft2 stage, surrounded by support spaces such as set and costume shops, storage, dressing rooms, green room, black box theatre, ticket offi ce and public toilets. The auditorium is outfi tted with a full fl y loft, orchestra pit filler, stage sound refl ector shell, and professional sound and light systems.

The design of the audience chamber of the Stockbridge Theater includes overhead gypsum refl ector panels, configured to provide appropriate distribution of sound from the stage to the seating area, and spaced to make use of the upper air volume above the reflectors.
Side wall areas near the stage proscenium have significant surface articulation to provide sound diffusion. Smaller scale wood slats are used at the lower wall areas near the stage, and large pyramidal acoustical diffusers, constructed of veneer plywood, are located at the upper wall area.