About Irondale Center
The Irondale Center for Theater, Education, and Outreach
in the BAM Cultural District
An Innovative Center For
Theater in a Dramatic, Revitalized Space
When Irondale discovered a neglected, long-vacant former Sunday school auditorium in the historic Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, we also saw the potential in this 7,300 sq. foot room for creating a dynamic flexible theater. We are proud to be neighbors in the building with the church, a culturally diverse congregation whose activist roots date back to Brooklyn’s pre-civil war abolitionist movement. The Theater also provides an opportunity for Irondale to play an important role in an exciting and growing cultural district.
A Simple Room: A Great Possibility
The Irondale Center for Theater, Education, and Outreach is a unique space that serves as the physical laboratory for Irondale’s for all of Irondale’s work. The theatre has 28-foot ceilings, a 1,900-square-foot mezzanine/gallery, and original stained glass windows. Irondale’s restoration, completed in 2008, retains the original scale, character and details of this distinctive space.
Here are some of our space’s special features:
- 3700 sf. space with a 28 ft. ceiling, and a 1900 sf. balcony on three sides
- More than 150 lighting instruments and corresponding equipment on a grid system
- Full sound system with both theatrical and musical capabilities, microphones, monitors
- Three on-site projectors
- 2 Dressing Rooms for artists (1 has full bath)
- Administrative space for visiting companies
- Black and white scrims, heavy white cyclorama, and a moveable curtain-track system
- Staging platforms
- Live-feed video projections and/or recording capabilities
- Audio-recording Capabilities
- Café area for concessions
- Flexible modular theatrical seating for up to 250 people