[1] It is the largest theatre space on the Berklee College of Music campus and is used primarily for college-affiliated activities.
[1] The 1915 movie palace, designed by Thomas Lamb, was renovated and reopened as the Berklee Performance Center in 1976.
[3] Berklee College of Music uses the facility to present its most popular and heavily produced student concert events, such as the Singers Showcase and the International Folk Festival.
Other Berklee-affiliated public events such as ticketed concerts during the Beantown Jazz Festival, produced by the college since 2006,[5] and the Music Series at Berklee, which pairs professional musicians such as Issac Delgado, Don Was, and Gary Burton with student ensembles,[6] are also presented at the Berklee Performance Center.
For the Fall 2012 season, the headliners include Rockapella, Franco Corso, Pentatonix, Glen Hansard, Melody Gardot, Béla Fleck, Snarky Puppy, Clannad, Zoë Keating, Alfie Boe, Henry Rollins, Aimee Mann, and Mary Black.