Performing Arts Center

As part of Villanova University’s redevelopment of its southern campus, LF Driscoll managed construction of the John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts, a state-of-the-art facility featuring two theaters, classrooms, a dance studio, and dedicated costume, scenery, and production spaces.

The proscenium-style main theater required a highly sequenced structural approach to create multiple levels of cantilevered seating and unobstructed audience views, including the installation of a 68-foot-long, 12-ton steel girder that required extensive transportation, traffic, crane, and site logistics planning. The facility’s specialized performance environments also demanded precise coordination of acoustical systems, theatrical lighting, audiovisual infrastructure, and MEP systems, as well as oversized circulation paths connecting the scene shop and stage. Working within a constrained campus site, our team coordinated soil stockpiling, just-in-time deliveries, specialty trades, and theatrical systems to maintain progress while delivering the sophisticated technical infrastructure required for a modern performing arts facility.